From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 14:26:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AF316A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaco@coocoo.za.net) Received: from riot.premsoft.co.za (mail.accountmate.co.za [196.38.54.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAF643D55 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:26:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaco@coocoo.za.net) Received: (qmail 30335 invoked by uid 1003); 23 Jun 2005 14:20:32 -0000 Received: from jaco@coocoo.za.net by riot.premsoft.co.za by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 9.080712 secs); 23 Jun 2005 14:20:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO webmail.premsoft.co.za) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jun 2005 14:20:22 -0000 Received: from 196.37.144.108 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jaco@coocoo.za.net) by webmail.premsoft.co.za with HTTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:20:22 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <3333.196.37.144.108.1119536422.squirrel@webmail.premsoft.co.za> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:20:22 +0200 (SAST) From: jaco@coocoo.za.net To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Support Intel Server Board SE7320VP2, Marvell NIC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:26:29 -0000 HI all, I am looking into buying a server with the Intel SE7320VP2 motherboard that has the following on board: One Intel PRO/1000 MT Server Network Connection via an RJ45 connector (Intel 82541PI GB controller); supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T; one Marvell* 88E8050 10/100/1000 Network Interface Controller The only thing that bugs me is that as far as I know there is no (working) support for the Marvell card in FreeBSD 5.x. I do not follow the -CURRENT list, but is there a solution for actually using this card? Next question is, will I be able to use the card at all, be it 100Mbit maybe? Please CC me on replies as I am not currently subscribed to the freebsd-hardware@ list. Thank you in advance. --Jaco