From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 11 10:20: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA6437B401 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6B543E72 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8BHJfQ03083; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200209111719.g8BHJfQ03083@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?) In-Reply-To: <200209111611.g8BGBBFT031897@vashon.polstra.com> To: John Polstra Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra writes: | If you want a gigabit interface that is likely to keep working in | FreeBSD, your only option is to use the Intel chips and the "em" | driver. It's our only gigabit driver that's maintained by somebody | who has unrestricted access to the documentation and errata. Atleast one potential exception to this it that so far National seems to keep their programming on line without needed an NDA. I used that and peeked at the Netgear Linux driver on how to enable the fiber port. So now the driver supports copper and fiber cards. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message