From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 14:56:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBEF16A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:56:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F004B13C45A for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:56:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I1jpq-0004XH-RQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:10:02 +0200 Received: from desk2.office.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.83.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:10:02 +0200 Received: from matthew by desk2.office.bytemark.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matthew Bloch Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:04:55 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: desk2.office.bytemark.co.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) Sender: news Subject: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:56:51 -0000 Hi there, I'm a Linux expert, FreeBSD novice trying to get a FreeBSD bootstrap together for our network and am stuck because nForce network chips are a pain in the backside :) I wonder if anyone can confirm what I've found and suggest an easier way forward: Basically I can install 6.2-RELEASE off a CD-ROM in the office but there is no nve0 device on this particular Gigabyte m61pm-S2 board - based on similar experience with the Linux forcedeth driver, I assume that we just need a newer driver. However I understand that the nve driver is a dead-end and that the nfe driver will replace it from 7.0. So in order to use this on our bootstrap system, I will need to rebuild the kernel, taking nve out and compiling nfe (with the relevant PHY patch) in. Is that about the quickest way to fix this? I'd be very interested to know if anyone could suggest a solution that didn't involve rebuilding the kernel. Thanks for any tips... -- Matthew