Mon 2004-05-31 07:10, John Tserkezis (3:800/221) wrote to All:

 >>  I just went to plug in the network cable - no LAN card! The bastard!
 >> I thought $10 extra was too cheap... he's left out the network card.
 >> 
 >>  Fiendishly cunning, are these Chinese.

 JT> Naw, that's the norm.  Only the bottom of the barrel all-in-one 
 JT> motherboards have them.  They're crap.  By crap I mean they have 
 JT> support only for windows. And by "support" I mean they have 
 JT> supplied software that claims to run under windows.  And by 
 JT> "claims", I mean it does something.  By something, I mean it works 
 JT> most of the time.  By "most" I..... you get the idea.

The ethernet chipset onboard the Gigabyte motherboard on my new machine is
an SiS 900.  Rock solid so far under Windows 2000.

FreeBSD supports it too.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2.1-RELEASE

It's a GA-8SIMLH-P board:

http://tw.giga-byte.com/motherboard/products/products_ga-8simlh-p%20(rev%204.0).htm

About the only bad thing about it is it doesn't have onboard Firewire
support, but I don't need that. 

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