Is Asus H170 pro ok for FreeBSD?

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Emrion

Hello,

I'm planning to buy a PC based on this motherboard: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H170I-PRO/overview/

As far as I can see, it includes two wired network cards and a wifi one.
At this point, I'm unable to find out the chipsets involved in these hardwares and so unable to know if there are FreeBSD drivers that work for these.

Just saw that the sata controler of Intel H170 chipset run under FreeBSD 11.

Before to buy, I would like to be a little confident about the good functionning of the network cards (including wifi).

Anyone has any information?
 
Emrion said:
At this point, I'm unable to find out the chipsets involved in these hardwares and so unable to know if there are FreeBSD drivers that work for these.
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Look at the specs.
Intel® I219V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s)
Realtek®, 1 x Gigabit LAN
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The Intel card is probably fine (most Intel cards work). The Realtek might be a hit or miss, a lot of Realtek cards are supported by if_re(4) but Realtek seems to have a habit of changing their designs without changing the chip's ID.
 
Thank you SirDice. Ok, concerning the Realtek card, it's a matter of chance. But the case seems rather positive.

I totally missed the chipset for the Intel one but Realtek is a brand, not a chipset. Remains the wifi card...
 
The Realtek LAN NIC is an RTL8111H. It should work fine with FreeBSD's re(4) driver.
The Wifi chip is a Qualcomm Atheros QCNFA364A / QCA6174. I have no idea if it works with FreeBSD, but I'm afraid it's unlikely. If you need Wifi connectivity, consider buying a supported USB Wifi adapter.
 
Thanks. The wifi chip make me to reconsider my buying. Worse, there is Bluthooth feature on the same die...

Well, concerning the fan control, the PC in question shouldn't have one at all, as it's a zero decibel labelled machine.
 
shepper said:
This card will work out of the box at 10/100. 10/100/1000 requires firmware and I believe the forum has prior threads on what is involved.Thread 67004
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No, it doesn't require anything. It works out of the box, period, including 1000baseT. I have access to several machines with such Realtek NICs; there are no problems whatsoever, and you don't have to do anything special.

Of course, you should make sure that you …
  • … have good cables (if in doubt, swap cables or buy new ones).
  • … use a recent and supported version of FreeBSD. At this time I recommend stable/12 or 12-RELEASE.
  • … do not disable autonegotiation at either end. Problems often arise when people try to manually set the media at one end.
 
olli@ said:
If you need Wifi connectivity, consider buying a supported USB Wifi adapter.
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I need more than wifi connectivity. My concern is: which access point USB wifi dongle works with FreeBSD? And is it possible to passthru such a device into bhyve?
 
I know for a fact that, in Linux at least, such I219V(2) had trouble with 1Gbps speed. Could be driver or power management issue. However it worked fine at 100Mbps
 
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