From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 15 18:49:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8455637B403 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 966 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jul 2001 01:49:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2001 01:49:19 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:49:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Bill Paul Cc: Subject: Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3 In-Reply-To: <20010713180434.7D25937B401@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20010715204819.N769-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > For those who have gigabit ethernet NICs based on the National > Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 controller chips and want to use > them with FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3, there is a driver kit now available > at the following URL: ... > These cards are all extremely cheap (some can be had for under $100) > and fairly easy to find. (I now have one in my workstation.) They could > potentially become extremely popular, which is why I'm making a driver > retrofit kit available. Anyone running a recent 4-STABLE or 5.0-CURRENT > system should already have the necessary driver support. How do these perform compared to the more expensive gigabit cards? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message