From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 13:45:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA43116A4B3; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D019344005; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2CC2A7EA; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Q In-Reply-To: <1064896584.35687.63.camel@boxster> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:45:12 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030930204512.BD2CC2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce MCP network driver - working X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:45:14 -0000 Q wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the final stages of porting the NVidia Linux nForce MCP network > driver to FreeBSD-5.1 and am after some experienced users/developers > with access to this hardware to do some testing to find out what breaks, > and what doesn't work. My driver makes use of the Linux nvnetlib.o API > library, and should therefore be compliant with the NVidia Linux > distribution license. > > The driver currently appears to be stable on my hardware (an MSI K7N420 Pro), > although I haven't done much stress testing, nor do I have access to an > nForce2 based motherboard to test. I have a set of nForce2 and nForce3 based boards, but they all run 5.x and the nForce3 is an athlon64 system. > This is still very much a work in progress, but it has been stable > enough for me to actually use productively so I thought I would share > the wealth, so to speak, with the rest of the community. > > If you are interested in testing this, email me offline. I am also > interested in how many people would like to see a FreeBSD-4.x version. > > PS: I am still waiting for NVidia to reply to any of my emails. :( Fun fun. :-( Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5