From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 13:57:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AEC16A4CE; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from integer.pobox.com (integer.pobox.com [208.58.1.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C2543D1F; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b.candler@pobox.com) Received: from colander (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by integer.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E2773881; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:57:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from jester.pobox.com (jester.pobox.com [64.71.166.114]) by integer.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FED7387B; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:57:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from vaio.linnet.org (unknown [80.44.130.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jester.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A2D88; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:57:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from brian by vaio.linnet.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7iHb-000ASl-Bm; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:57:31 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:57:31 +0100 From: Brian Candler To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040328215731.GA40112@uk.tiscali.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: q@onthenet.com.au cc: wpaul@freebsd.org Subject: nVidia chipset - ethernet support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:57:36 -0000 I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine, which has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to work: kldload snd_ich -- pcm kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod kldload sbp / but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that this is a long-standing issue: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html but I don't see anything else posted since August last year. I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ [1] Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet [2] Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than the one at [1]. If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save me some random hacking. Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too! Cheers, Brian.