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From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
To: Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>, Jiri Mikulas <konfer@mikulas.com>,
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Subject: Re: PCI-E 1x network adapter
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--- Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote:

> At 04:17 2005-12-09, Jiri Mikulas wrote:
> >Hello
> >I'm looking for PCI-Express 1x network adapter
> for FBSD-6
> >I found adpaters only for PCI-X in
> documentation,
> >on google I didn't find much more :(...
> >
> >Is there any PCI-E adapter supported ?
> >Could you recommend me any adapter, plase ?
> >Thanks for reply.
> >Jiri
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> We use Intel's dual ports gigabit adapters in
> dell's servers with 
> freebsd 6 without any problem.
> 
> They are supported by the "em" driver

Note that 1x PCI-E isn't fast enough to fully
support gigabit speeds. Its about equivalent to
running on a 32bit bus performance-wise. You need
4x to get full gig performance.

In other words, if your MB has a PCI-X bus also,
use it instead.

Danial

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