From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 14 04:00:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3889E51F for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aurfalien@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x22c.google.com (mail-oa0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 018222B90 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l20so12505184oag.17 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=98y29rd/BGT3IfBwZZOK9rYAMqAG9pROpblarNGvZho=; b=vR5U6IPPf2qjGejwzMqwLFvHuar8MJs/v7h9YgGzZ9YKo/5EnGEIg90TcHgOO7sL2h +1Cix3yK1HX9AarWbdAPsDFPo9Hfx9KMPqdwAN4QSoVt7PQGb1mvk4sl1kI2oiS9dj91 eqVMLSx7kvzTeL6WwtfdZEuZiWEPrBejrcpUtIfJV3bbIOFhQE9PlMb3faTD9ktMJ/zY jHk1EBHlvTZbVqB1vT7eYdkaDZ9vQ3eRsL+lTXc7kT8KGxHtSaYbRFhl3p8KPmgDrhew Vk3+4AcT89nhVDOkRHW4k6koq2JkgRs+yhvNk/jTGBKo3EXAc2JN57+y8yLvxgZGtfTM 5/Rw== X-Received: by 10.182.71.38 with SMTP id r6mr4044521obu.64.1376452806223; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from briankrusicw.logan.tv ([64.17.255.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id xr8sm7607389obc.12.2013.08.13.21.00.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: SolarFlare 10GB card Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: aurfalien In-Reply-To: <20130814033046.GA78932@neutralgood.org> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:00:03 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6676D791-1277-447A-81D8-ED99DEB05269@gmail.com> References: <82661969-647C-4064-BB7A-76293C655CDC@gmail.com> <20130812181253.GB73045@slackbox.erewhon.net> <9C271D6F-9B0E-47E1-88F0-0E582F221E00@gmail.com> <20130814033046.GA78932@neutralgood.org> To: kpneal@pobox.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org questions" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:00:07 -0000 On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:30 PM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:13:57PM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >>=20 >> On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: >>=20 >>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>>=20 >>>> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our = beast of a server. >>>>=20 >>>> However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta. >>>=20 >>> 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. :-) >>=20 >> It was actually easier to dl the driver from SolarF;ares site and = follow there dirs. >>=20 >> But for future, ref, would be cool to now how to do this. >=20 > I haven't been paying that much attention, but ... >=20 > If you are running 9.1 or later, what happens if you run as root these = two > commands: >=20 > # 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=