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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--nextPart1885641.Wc2PAHIv53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 (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=20 performance testing though, however I am only interested in basic=20 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 :) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1885641.Wc2PAHIv53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBG9yoP5ZPcIHs/zowRAo2VAJ9z1oD7SmDobwLlh2mo/HkrvQWgDwCeOAse ZTIzBBZOSsANNrHdBi7tEfs= =CFfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1885641.Wc2PAHIv53--
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