From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inetl Gigabit support References: <E17AnhE-000KLI-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il>
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>>>>> "DB" == Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:
DB> hi,
DB> is there any reason not to use the if_em driver? i'm asking because
DB> it's not mentioned in GENERIC while the wx is, and as far as i know
DB> developement there has stopped.
It is also not mentioned in /boot/defaults/loader.conf as a possible
module to pre-load, and it is not in LINT, which is worrisome. The
only mention of it seems to be the man page and the existence of the
loadable module.
Otherwise, it works great for me on a Dell PowerEdge 1650:
# ifconfig -a
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3<rxcsum,txcsum>
inet 206.112.95.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 206.112.95.63
inet 206.112.95.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 206.112.95.6
ether 00:06:5b:0f:5b:d3
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
em1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3<rxcsum,txcsum>
inet 192.168.100.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
ether 00:06:5b:0f:5b:d4
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
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