Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:37:51 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: jfv@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ICH9 ethernet part (82566) woes Message-ID: <200709241238.00177.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0709202322p5241bde5l7baec78fd13a4c71@mail.gmail.com> References: <200709201818.04408.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200709211308.43424.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <2a41acea0709202322p5241bde5l7baec78fd13a4c71@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jack Vogel wrote: > Then on the side menu pick network connectivity, then server adapter, > and select an adapter, it shouldnt matter which. Once at that page > there is a pulldown for OS, select FreeBSD and tada... I found this -> http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/CS-006120.htm Which leads me to v6.4.1 which claims support for the part in question (checking the source shows the PCI ID) It also has patches for TSO, although it appears to be optional. I just installed it and it appears to work fine, I haven't done any performance testing though, however I am only interested in basic connectivity. > I just looked however and the latest on there is from the last > release, 6.5.6 which is only for 7. E1000 was not the real focus of > this release, the new Oplin 10G was, however as I said, 6.6.6 has the > nice feature of compiling on both OS versions, and it has the support > you need. > > Just give them a week and I think it will be there, maybe I can take > a break from my other work and get to the MFC. As the 6.4.1 driver works I am happy :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG9yoP5ZPcIHs/zowRAo2VAJ9z1oD7SmDobwLlh2mo/HkrvQWgDwCeOAse ZTIzBBZOSsANNrHdBi7tEfs= =CFfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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