From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 5: 0:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C191437B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 05:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benh@jpj.net) Received: from [192.168.10.2] (xlate-6-168.webster.edu [198.246.6.168]) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3QC0La20200; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:00:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: benh@blues.jpj.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200104251750.NAA12351@taurus.cs.albany.edu> References: Message from Chris Shenton of "25 Apr 2001 11:15:52 EDT." <87vgntqac7.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:04:27 -0500 To: "William A. Maniatty" From: Ben Hockenhull Subject: Re: Intel 1000BaseT NIC support? Cc: Chris Shenton , questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:45 PM -0400 4/25/01, William A. Maniatty wrote: >> Ben Hockenhull writes: >> >> > Is the Intel Pro/1000T Server adapter supported yet? It's gig over >> > copper, and you can get a pair of them for $230.00 via an attractive Intel >> > promo. (http://www.intel.com//network/offers/testdrive_adapter.htm) >> >> Ooo, ahhh... But how to you interconnect machines with these? Just >> link two with a cross-over cable? I doubt I can afford a gigabit >> switch. >> >> Expiring minds want to know! > >My understanding is that the driver writers and Intel have had some >difficulties in negotiating access to the manuals for these boards. >Given that, my impression is that the support on these boards >is not as strong as say the Alteon based or SysKonnect NICs. > >Recently, several vendors seem to be releasing NICs based on the >broadcom chipsets (I'm not sure which particular model) such as >the 3COM 3C966-T. I'm not sure what level of suport these will have >in FreeBSD. Hrm. That's unfortunate. For what it's worth, there are Linux drivers for this card at http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=PLU%2CDR V%2CUTL&ProductID=415&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21 Well, the actual tarball of source isn't there for whatever reason, but it's supposed to be. Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message