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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:33:20 +0700
From:      "Rashid N. Achilov" <achilov-rn@askd.ru>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support of Atheros AR8161
Message-ID:  <201304020933.20932.achilov-rn@askd.ru>
In-Reply-To: <51598928.2090909@kapsi.fi>
References:  <201304011754.17957.achilov-rn@askd.ru> <51598928.2090909@kapsi.fi>

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On Monday 01 April 2013, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> man miibus
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
> 
> There is no hardware support for that chip and you gotta buy a separate
> PCI-E gigabit ethernet NIC; if you do, be sure to check the actual
> chipset on the card to be supported by FreeBSD. The link above will
> help. Good hunting.

Well. What about alx driver, developed by 
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx? Is 
there any, who have tried to install it?
Also. "No hardware support" meant - "no and never" or "no, but probably"?
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