From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 17:34:30 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 B5A4916A468 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noerd@daemonical.org) Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C6A13C44B for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noerd@daemonical.org) Received: from fwd28.aul.t-online.de by mailout08.aul.t-online.de with smtp id 1I1mXO-000546-09; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:03:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (EAE+YoZr8ep4q+QoxBmflaXs3xaDJBOjfMn1PKIdoXDy2ISZigySYz@[84.165.100.193]) by fwd28.t-online.de with esmtp id 1I1mXI-0shuGu0; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:03:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:03:03 +0200 From: Oliver Herold To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070622170303.GA836@asgard.home> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-ID: EAE+YoZr8ep4q+QoxBmflaXs3xaDJBOjfMn1PKIdoXDy2ISZigySYz@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: f11635e2-c2e5-43de-9ad4-a54db31faa22 Subject: Re: 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 17:34:30 -0000 hint.nve.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints should do the magic. If have a motherboard with nforce4 (430) chipset, nve isn't even in action, to use the onboard nic I have to use nfe but I don't need the phy patch. Cheers, Oliver On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Matthew Bloch wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Instead of thinking of spam as a disease that might be eliminated, it is more useful to think of it like crime, war and cockroaches. It is not realistic to expect to eliminate any of these, no matter how much anyone might wish otherwise. Therefore the best we can hope to accomplish is to bring spam under reasonable control... -- Dave Crocker