From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 06:11:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7CF16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 06:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dd2314.kasserver.com (dd2314.kasserver.com [81.209.184.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4814A43D41 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 06:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from outi@outi.echsi.de) Received: from outi.echsi.de (unknown [217.6.14.10]) by dd2314.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FC2C0D35; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:11:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4047390A.8080401@outi.echsi.de> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:11:22 +0100 From: Patrick Hurrelmann User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hocking References: <200403041343.i24DhPlk065209@bleep.craftncomp.com> In-Reply-To: <200403041343.i24DhPlk065209@bleep.craftncomp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any plans to support nForce2 ethernet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:11:39 -0000 Stephen Hocking wrote: > All, > > I have one of those nifty shuttle boxes with the nForce2 motherboard, and the > onbaord ethernet isn't supported by 5.2.1. The kernel notes that there's an > ethernet device there, but doesn't attach a driver to it. Doesn anyone plan to > do this? There's a reverse engineered Linux driver for (forcedeth) asn well as > nvidia's own drivers. My own rather hazy understanding is that it's a variant > of the Realtek chipset. > > > Stephen theres a port which contains the linux binary distribution of this driver. have a look in /usr/ports/net/nvnet it will create a kernel-module and at least it lets you use the nforce2 nic ;)