Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 23:15:30 -0500 From: "Z.C.B." <vvelox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does Marvell 88E8053 PCIe Gigabit LAN controller work with 6.0? Message-ID: <20060529231530.14bf1825@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <C0A0ED53.2E54%aaronvan@comcast.net> References: <C0A0ED53.2E54%aaronvan@comcast.net>
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On Mon, 29 May 2006 18:26:27 -0700 Aaron VanAlstine <aaronvan@comcast.net> wrote: > Folks, > > I have an ASUS P5LD2 mobo with a Marvell 88E8053 PCIe Gigabit LAN > controller. FreeBSD doesn't seem to recognize it. Should the LAN > controller work out of the box or am I missing a driver? > > ifconfig returns plip0: and lo0: with their respective flags. > Sysinstall says plip0 is an "unknown interface type." The speed LED > is orange indicating a 100 Mbps connection, but the act/link is > off. My ISP supports DHCP. IIRC that is the Yukon chipset. I have one on my laptop and it does not work. They have a binary package for it and they released the source under BSDL for it as well. The problem I have with it is it does not detect the carrier. Check around on the lists and you will find a link to the source. You can find the binary driver on their site.
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