From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 10:33:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFDA16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.208.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3845E43D53 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7008634D50 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:33:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.lambertfam.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75200-09 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:33:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id ABF2B34D53; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:33:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:33:20 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040313183320.GA74457@www.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200403131357.i2DDvwnS011318@the-macgregors.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403131357.i2DDvwnS011318@the-macgregors.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lambertfam.org Subject: Re: nForce 2 - network support in -CURRENT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:33:24 -0000 On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:57:58PM -0000, Rob MacGregor wrote: > I've just purchased a new box to replace my dying one. Having utterly > failed to think the hardware support issue through I just bought a > cheap one - with an nForce2 Ultra chipset (it's the Shuttle SN45G > system). > > A quick trawl suggest that, as yet, -CURRENT doesn't yet support the > network chipset, though somebody has/had work in progress (as of > October 2003). Does anybody know what the state of play is? > > I can drop a spare PCI network card in, but it'll require a little > rework as I'm currently running a multi-port serial card out of it and > the box only has one PCI slot :) If there isn't a native driver, you can always try the ndis driver. If that doesn't work, I bet Bill Paul would like to know about it. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html