Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:57:31 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: wpaul@freebsd.org Subject: nVidia chipset - ethernet support? Message-ID: <20040328215731.GA40112@uk.tiscali.com>
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I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine, which has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to work: kldload snd_ich -- pcm kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod kldload sbp / but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that this is a long-standing issue: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html but I don't see anything else posted since August last year. I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ [1] Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet [2] Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than the one at [1]. If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save me some random hacking. Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too! Cheers, Brian.
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