From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 18:13:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A291065672 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:13:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patrick.ale@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com (mail-bw0-f223.google.com [209.85.218.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D128FC17 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so1322557bwz.13 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:13:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Cvj8FSYgdyOxtIs1+csIbcCUr4yxL0pbSuaMKzfGoRM=; b=tkchWruP6K8UMSQJCqYH/hVcDGYmZJnrzi9yCmHydcGeQJ7tzcEyVC7ud830zFr0K1 aPLV4+SO5XGXhOfXEpRs4x9EhvU4ha6LevtnkNrUBFfQYmlTw6b3hk7YWeHFmciDFWGH iCuuhAm+cnDYc7fouGgYzRVsfUsSMKfZgwyIo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L2nIsdOJVwIy7VP/yyVsSfjqP5rWvfEMc7pZdWDSOVTjP2fZ3L2NY1Re1NJmbHQp+P hd3jh7+EMvPZY46aR14h1z7cebmfZtI1g5dVI5VEkR8uAx2XFdfiaNz3H2BnF+NUwJLm QV6W5KqXJB50ImVTVPNQMG3o14a/whyCKSA74= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.36.71 with SMTP id s7mr4465497bkd.171.1266344035767; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:13:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201002161245.17047.freebsd@insightbb.com> References: <8d158e1f1002160429m747efaf1h478b6b9cf00b96c@mail.gmail.com> <201002161245.17047.freebsd@insightbb.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:13:55 +0100 Message-ID: <8d158e1f1002161013m5eaa6e84n24e5e646053aca2b@mail.gmail.com> From: Patrick Ale To: Steven Friedrich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Attansic L1 Gigabit discovered on install but no link X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:13:57 -0000 On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Steven Friedrich w= rote: > On Tuesday 16 February 2010 07:29:35 am Patrick Ale wrote: > I don't want to stop you from pursuing getting this NIC working, but why = don't > you have an option here? =A0I would suspect that your laptop has USB port= s and > Netgear and others make USB Ethernet in wired and wireless versions. I ha= ven't > checked to see if any are gigabit speed, but connecting at a slower speed > beats no connection. 8o) Hi, You have a good point there actually, I could buy a new card for USB or PCI-E if the need was really high. Then again, I run two other OS-es on this laptop without network problems so it would be more economical to just boot to Solaris 10 or Linux when I need network. It's not a biggie for me if the network card doesn't work under FreeBSD, I want to mess with it localy mainly. Then again, if there is a driver shipped with an operating system and it doesn't seem to work, I'd like to report it and see how I can help out. So yea, just to make it very clear, I am not in a rush or will go completely beserk like I see some people do by reading back the mailing archives cause "their newest 10gigabit Wantastic Ethernet card with coffee making capabilities from late 2009 doesn't work under the latest FreeBSD release and how come it works under Windows, FreeBSD is imature" ;-) On a serious note though, there is a driver shipped with FreeBSD 8.0 and I assume it is there cause it's believed to work. Any pointer to getting this card would be highly appreciated, kernel reconfiguration hints, patches, external code, I am all in for it. Thanks all! Patrick