From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 11:19:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0671816A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lon1-mail-1.visp.demon.net (lon1-mail-1.visp.demon.net [193.195.70.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5FC43FF3 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lewiz@blue.lewiz.org) Received: from mail.lewiz.org (host-70b-en-u-179.dial.beeb.net [62.56.3.179] (may be forged))3.2.1-GA) with ESMTP id AOE51633; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:19:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from blue.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.11]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19xW2I-000G8c-Ac; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:19:18 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 11572 invoked by uid 4001); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:19:24 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:19:24 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: John DeStefano Message-ID: <20030911181924.GA11502@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Thompson , John DeStefano , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Andrew L. Gould" References: <20030911175612.3630.qmail@web40605.mail.yahoo.com> <20030911180230.6224.qmail@web40604.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911180230.6224.qmail@web40604.mail.yahoo.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "Andrew L. Gould" Subject: Re: nforce2 (for the zillionth time, I should imagine) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:19:53 -0000 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:30AM -0700, John DeStefano wrote: > I've been looking for an answer for the nForce2 chipset for months in > various arenas, including on this list and on -net. Nobody seems to > have an answer; in fact, one person's reply on this list was "good > luck". The drivers to which Andrew refers above are for Linux, not > UNIX/BSD, and Linux emulation does not seem to do the trick. There are definitely FreeBSD drivers that exist for the graphics cards (which my motherboard has). > You may be able to get away with something on enabling some peripheral > drivers such as audio, but enabling the on-board NIC, which has been > my main concern, does not seem likely unless someone at nVidia works > with a BSD developer to port over the proper drivers. Reading the manual of my board I've found the onboard LAN is a Realtek 8201BL, which I'm hoping does not count as an ``nvnet'' NIC (I'm about to get check up on this). As you suggested the audio is not NVIDIA stuff (Realtek ALC 650), so I'm hoping I can get this going too. I'm in the process of writing a letter directly to NVIDIA, which I plan on posting, praising them for their work on the graphics cards, while also suggesting they get their asses in gear with the nForce2 support. I suggest you might also do the same. Best wishes. -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/YLysItq0KFQv7T8RAjqxAJ0btxDv/ZA0ar5Z+THY6ZqGOHYuSACfaCgS 9sVVcyAKlz2ZvXnmU4l7jHs= =LsdB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--