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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2005 06:26:27 +0200
From:      Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        je killen <jekillen@prodigy.net>
Subject:   Re: nvidia nforce motherboard w/onboard nic
Message-ID:  <200505060626.35890@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <174CE8BC-BDE4-11D9-AAD4-0003930420B6@prodigy.net>
References:  <174CE8BC-BDE4-11D9-AAD4-0003930420B6@prodigy.net>

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Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 06:05 schrieb je killen:
> To whom ever receives and responds to this request for info;
>
> I had installed Mandrake Linux on a machine that uses an nvidia
> motherboard and found there to be no ethernet driver included with the
> distribution.  After hunting around I found a driver for the onboard
> nic from the nvidia web site. I installed it and got a tainted kernel
> warning. I realize that FreeBSD is not Mandrake linux, but I also
> anticipate a few hoops to jump through to get a driver for FreeBSD to
> use this network interface. Needless to say I'm dumping Mandrake and
> want to use FreeBSD. My source of info at this time is FreeBSD
> Unleashed; Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann, Sams publishing. It has a
> hardware compatibility list in an appendix in the back and is
> copyrighted 2003 but lists minimum hardware requirements as intel 386
> architecture or compatible processor (AMD, which I am using, I
> presume). This leads me to believe that the text is somewhat dated. I
> have another nic installed in the machine, a D-link card, but I want
> two network cards. One to connect to ADSL and the other to connect to
> the inside network. My machine has two pci Slots but I'd rather use the
> builtin and one pci card slot (which I have been using). I would
> appreciate any guidance on this matter; E.G, Is there a FreeBSD
> compatible driver for this nic? I have not determined what chip set is

Yes, 6-current has nve, but I guess you're using 5.4, so you have to=20
compile a port called nvnet. It's in /usr/ports/net/nvnet, just type make=20
install.
=46or more information how to add packages or ports see the surpassing=20
handbook:=20
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

=2DHarry

> used.
> Thank you so much for your time and attention:
> I would thank you by name but I don't know who will be responding;
> Jeff Killen
> jekillen@prodigy.net
>
>
>
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