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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:13:57 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SolarFlare 10GB card
Message-ID:  <9C271D6F-9B0E-47E1-88F0-0E582F221E00@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130812181253.GB73045@slackbox.erewhon.net>
References:  <82661969-647C-4064-BB7A-76293C655CDC@gmail.com> <20130812181253.GB73045@slackbox.erewhon.net>

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On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>=20
>> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast =
of a server.
>>=20
>> However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta.
>=20
> If you look in the download[1], you'll see that the driver is named =
sfxge. It
> was released in November 2011. This driver is already present in =
FreeBSD 9.1,
> look at the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/sfxge.
> So it seems like it is as much out of beta as any other driver. :-)

It was actually easier to dl the driver from SolarF;ares site and follow =
there dirs.

But for future, ref, would be cool to now how to do this.

- aurf=



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