From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 16:08:02 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 B540F16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:08:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54A443D2F for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2E07oQ9056859; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:37:54 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:37:49 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200403131357.i2DDvwnS011318@the-macgregors.org> In-Reply-To: <200403131357.i2DDvwnS011318@the-macgregors.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403141037.49237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Rob MacGregor 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: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:08:02 -0000 On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:27, 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? Try the /usr/ports/net/nvnet port. It uses the binary Linux driver in a wrapper. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5