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Subject: Re: NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Interface
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Angelo Turetta wrote:
> Joe Holden wrote:
>> Hi collective,
>>
>> It's an Athlon 64 board, with an MCP51 NIC, this card is supported 
>> under  Linux using the forcedeth driver, having taken a look at 
>> if_nve.c, it doesn't appear to be supported.
> 
> It's supported by the nfe(4) driver, which has already been committed to 
> 7-CURRENT.
> For 6-STABLE (and 6.2-RELEASE, previous releases did not even bootstrap 
> on that chipset), please follow the discussions regarding nve/nfe at:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108861
> and
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=127522+0+archive/2007/freebsd-net/20070211.freebsd-net 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> Angelo Turetta
> 

Thanks, what about the IDE controller etc, are those all supported?  My 
serial console for that machine isn't currently working, so I won't be 
able to check if it boots until its connected up.

Thanks,
Joe