Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:11:22 +0100 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@outi.echsi.de> To: Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any plans to support nForce2 ethernet? Message-ID: <4047390A.8080401@outi.echsi.de> In-Reply-To: <200403041343.i24DhPlk065209@bleep.craftncomp.com> References: <200403041343.i24DhPlk065209@bleep.craftncomp.com>
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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 ;)
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