Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:03 -0700 From: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SolarFlare 10GB card Message-ID: <6676D791-1277-447A-81D8-ED99DEB05269@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130814033046.GA78932@neutralgood.org> References: <82661969-647C-4064-BB7A-76293C655CDC@gmail.com> <20130812181253.GB73045@slackbox.erewhon.net> <9C271D6F-9B0E-47E1-88F0-0E582F221E00@gmail.com> <20130814033046.GA78932@neutralgood.org>
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On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:30 PM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:13:57PM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> >> On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a server. >>>> >>>> However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta. >>> >>> If you look in the download[1], you'll see that the driver is named sfxge. It >>> was released in November 2011. This driver is already present in FreeBSD 9.1, >>> look at the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/sfxge. >>> So it seems like it is as much out of beta as any other driver. :-) >> >> It was actually easier to dl the driver from SolarF;ares site and follow there dirs. >> >> But for future, ref, would be cool to now how to do this. > > I haven't been paying that much attention, but ... > > If you are running 9.1 or later, what happens if you run as root these two > commands: > > # kldload if_sfxge > # kldstat Hi, Thanks for the reply. It fails as cannot find module. Eh, no biggy, building it from there actual source is trivial. - aurf
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