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Date:      Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:39:39 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI Express 1x NIC
Message-ID:  <804f02lsjemg250i054o7753grjrsi3fck@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it>
References:  <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it>

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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:12:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Hello.
>I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a "PCI=20
>Express x1" slot.
>Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be=
=20
>Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance.
>
>Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the=
=20
>two? :)


=46or PCI-E, I am using a Broadcom unit that works well under RELENG_6

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001> mem
0xfddf0000-0xfddfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43


bge0@pci2:0:0:  class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x167714e4 chip=3D0x167714e4
rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00
    vendor   =3D 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   =3D 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    =3D network
    subclass =3D ethernet
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