Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:34:35 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC? Message-ID: <20060619083435.GA17102@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <44963FEC.3050909@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <200606181915.k5IJFCvv015074@asarian-host.net> <44963FEC.3050909@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:10:52AM +0200, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > Mark schrieb: > >A similar question as before: does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel > >PWLA8391GT NIC card? >=20 > According to Google this card is also known as Intel PRO/1000. It should= =20 > work with the em(4) driver. Intel PRO/1000 is a whole family of gigabit cards. The name for the particular card in question here is the Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter. If I have read the CVS logs correctly, support for this particular card was added to RELENG_4 somtime between 4.10-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE (Oct 2004 to be more exact), so it should be supported in 4.11-RELEASE as well as in 4.11-STABLE (but not in 4.10-RELEASE or older.) >=20 > See also http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET Unfortunately that document does not make it clear exactly which cards are supported. >=20 > >Earlier, I recieved a link to the FreeBSD site for 'older' versions, but= I > >only saw 4.11-RELEASE there. >=20 > 4.11-RELEASE is the latest release of the 4-STABLE branch. There are=20 > only a few minor changes between the latest release and -STABLE in this= =20 > case. There has actually been quite a few changes (mostly fairly minor) in 4-STAB= LE since 4.11 was released. Considering it has been almost 18 months since 4.11 was released, this is not surprising. --=20 <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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