From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 3 00:39:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5E616A420 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:39:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C5943D46 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:39:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k230dUXj079761; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:39:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Andrea Venturoli Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:39:39 -0500 Message-ID: <804f02lsjemg250i054o7753grjrsi3fck@4ax.com> References: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Express 1x NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:39:32 -0000 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: mem 0xfddf0000-0xfddfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: on bge0 brgphy0: 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 -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)