From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 18:33:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65454106567B for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:33:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0778FC1D for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxh11 with SMTP id 11so452399vxh.13 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:33:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=jRGiY0GHvLYeFiSsGX1qWr9HryNDcr67JJBweh135lQ=; b=FGBccLbav3lKOb9Fx3hKDRam/XbvdY2zB4pkV9uz0AKOGsWqbPA14Vggcq2Qt4NDaW wpJLCy/bAhXdyp5eicx2fnLcKLrPQqRxIAHHqFke8/uNjaaK0WvjsAD8vJNrTC62Xf8P e2lQOtctnD0u2BB2287vfYVCWag2ix+lah+/g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.23.198 with SMTP id o6mr4116401vdf.269.1314122724841; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.113.8 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:05:21 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Sami Halabi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10G Inter adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:33:57 -0000 What OS release are you going to be using, 8.2 ? The driver in HEAD is the latest code, the internal tarball goes thru release machinery so it is lagging a bit (2.3.8 vs 2.3.11), you should be OK in either case, but I'd recommend the newer. Jack On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Sami Halabi wrote: > Hi everyone, > i have a 82599EB network card. > the ixgbe driver on 8* supports 82598 cards, although it identified my card > but i'm not sure it will work fine and won't make kernel panics, since its > a > production server i want to put a good driver that will work without > problems. > > I just found this from the Intel website. > Looks like they have added support for the 82598 and 82599 which isn't on > the ixgbe driver on 8 stable/release. > > * > > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=14688&lang=eng > * > > is it safe to dowload and put the files of this driver in /sys/dev/ixgbe > and > then install it? > > is it simply: *make && make install && make clean*? > i guess i need to recompile the kernel also because ixgbe is on the GENERIC > kernel. > > what do you advise me? > > > > -- > Sami Halabi > Information Systems Engineer > NMS Projects Expert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >