Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:55:45 -0600 From: Curtis Dunham <cdunham@conwaycorp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re(4) for 4.11-RELEASE (Netgear GA311, etc.) Message-ID: <41FC9301.9070601@conwaycorp.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] In case someone else out there picked up a Netgear GA311 (Best Buy had them for ~$20 after rebate) or another re(4)-supported NIC and wants to put it in a 4.x box (I was too lazy to upgrade), I've repackaged Bill Paul's backported re(4) driver from the 4.9 release cycle so that it'll patch cleanly into 4.11-RELEASE. I made a small tweak to the receive configuration code so that going in and out of promiscuous mode doesn't start a full NIC reinitialize (which in the case of the GA311 appears to restart the speed autonegotiation, which tends to take awhile, and makes the link die). In doing so, I may have broken the driver horribly without knowing it, but it Works For Me (tm). If you have problems you could just drop in the sys/dev/re/if_re.c directly from Bill's driver (http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/4-stable/re.tar.gz <http://www.freebsd.org/%7Ewpaul/RealTek/4-stable/re.tar.gz>). For the record, the GA311 has a 8169S chipset. --- Curtis Dunham [-- Attachment #2 --] BZh91AY&SYcY 9>
