Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:12:43 -0700 (PDT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver Message-ID: <20010508231243.6EC1A37B423@hub.freebsd.org>
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Thanks to the nice people at SMC, I finally got my hands on a couple of gigE NICs and have a preliminary driver available for one of them. The if_nge driver supports the NatSemi DP83820 gigabit ethernet MAC, which is used on the EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), the D-Link DFE-500T, the Asante FriendlyNet Giganix 1000TA and 1000TPC, and (I believe) a couple of Addtron cards. These cards also use a NatSemi DP83861 PHY. The driver source is available from the following locations: http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/National/4.x 4.x if_nge source http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/National/5.x 5.x if_nge source http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/National/PHY nsgphy source (4.x and 5.x) Note that this is very alpha code. I can't test it very well as I have only one halfway working test box in the office right now. Don't ask me how well it performs because I DON'T KNOW. I *do* know the following: - 10/100 autoneg works - 1000mbps autoneg with an Alteon AceNIC seems to work - RX and TX at 10/100 works - RX and TX at 1000 works - jumbograms work Note that I'm not supplying a whole checklist of instructions that show how to add the driver to your system, because I want to insure that only the people who already know how to do this will send me bug reports. :) It's possible to build the driver directly into your kernel or compile it as a module. You also must have the nsgphy driver loaded in order for the if_nge driver to work. (It will actually work with the ukphy driver -- but only at 100mbps.) Anyway, if you have one of these cards and can test the code, please do, and let me know the results. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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