Re: NetBSD hw compatibility advice

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:58:45PM +0100, Anders Lindgren wrote:
> I'm shopping for some new hardware, due to some recent failures of
> some of my Jura-epoch x86 hardware. My google-fu has mostly let me
> down, so I am turning to this list for some enlightenment. :-)
> 
> Shopping for a new i7 box and found some appealing candidate motherboards:
> - ASUS P8Z77-V LX (RTL8111E GigE, ALC887 hdaudio)
> - ASUS P8Z77-M PRO (RTL8111F Gige, ALC892 hdaudio)

I'm running -current/amd64 on a Intel Core i5 3570K + Asus P8Z77-V LX

> However, I am worried about compatibility of audio, USB2, and
> notably that 8111F GigE that seems like a blind spot on google,
> netbsd-wise.

hdaudio0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0: HD Audio Controller
hdafg0 at hdaudio0: Realtek ALC887

seems fine in the sense that I have played CD with cdplay and heard something.

re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet (rev. 
0x06)
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 5

is fine, and from the USB point of view, I have used umass.

So far so good... It's one of the disks that just packed-in, and seatools
doesn't recognise the controller

ahcisata0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2: Intel 7 Series (desktop) SATA Controller 
(AHCI) (rev. 0x04)

making sending Seagate a test code "interesting".


Cheers,

Patrick