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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:09:56 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Glenn Sieb <ges+lists@wingfoot.org>
Subject:   Re: AMD Athlon64...
Message-ID:  <200506251310.02996.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050624151215.A99178@seagull.cons.org>
References:  <6.2.1.2.2.20050603175148.08552d50@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506032009520.927-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <20050624151215.A99178@seagull.cons.org>

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:42, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > C'mon, you can get supported ethernet cards for $20 or less.
>
> Not sure whether this is too late by now, but if_vge works as a module
> when loaded when the system is up, but just doesn't work when loaded
> from loader.conf.
>
> A simple rc.d emtry to load the module will solve this.  Or compile it
> in statically.

I am pretty sure both loading it in the loader and post boot doesn't work=20
properly but I'm not 100% sure.

> Now, the performance is awful, about half of what the nvidia chip on
> the NForce 250 GB does (which in turn was too much trouble elsewhere).

I haven't tried the performance.. Does it use lots of CPU? Or just transfer=
=20
slowly? (or both)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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