From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 06:56:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B311416A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate4.cinetic.de (mailgate4.cinetic.de [217.72.192.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0ED943D45 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from smtp.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) ESMTP id i2SEtxs29730 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:55:59 +0200 Received: from [80.135.119.26] (helo=[80.135.119.26]) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (WEB.DE 4.101 #82) id 1B7bgD-0005lz-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:54:29 +0200 From: Martin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 X-Flags: 0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 X-GMX-Antivirus: -1 (not scanned, may not use virus scanner) X-GMX-Antispam: -2 (not scanned, spam filter disabled) Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080485666.706.8.camel@klotz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:54:27 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de Subject: Found a working Gigabit Ethernet TC902X driver for STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:56:01 -0000 Hi, I got a new network adapter (Longshine 8039TX; take a look here: http://longshine.de/produkt/1000mbit/giga-eng.html). I have been looking for drivers for STABLE and found this post: http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg08427.html It mentions a module (sources), which you can download here: http://www.icplus.com.tw/Data/driver/TC902X_FreeBSD.zip The chipset comes from the company: Tamarack Microelectronics Inc. in Taiwan. I installed it on my STABLE box and it seems to work fine. Can someone of the committers take a look at the sources? I think the license is OK (it seems to be a BSD-type license). I hope that you can confirm that it is safe to use this module. For those who want to try it, here some advice (it's really weird, so read it please): 1) unzip the file in an empty folder 2) extract the tar-ball 3) rename the Readme.txt to rio.tgz 4) extract rio.tgz 5) cp the Makefile from ./rio subdirectory to the directory with the module sources 6) create a soft-link "pci -> ." in the same directory 7) run make 8) done, the result is: if_rio.ko I've asked to add it to ports ealier, but noone answered to me. I have tested this driver for 3 weeks now and it works well for me on FreeBSD-4.9-STABLE. It does not compile on CURRENT. Martin