From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 30 8: 2:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524CB37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from out6.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out6.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.3.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B5D43E4A for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from [10.1.1.6] (d100.as2.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.92.100]) by out6.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC9BDBEDE; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:59:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:07:23 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Greg Lewis Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA Rhine III (MII without any phy!) In-Reply-To: <20030130221623.A21565@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: <20030130100410.A10212-100000@patrocles.silby.com> References: <20030130221623.A21565@misty.eyesbeyond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Greg Lewis wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently acquired a motherboard with a VIA Rhine III onboard NIC. > I couldn't see support for this in the current vr(4) driver in either > -current or -stable and am trying to add support for it. Having not > done any kernel hacking before I'd appreciate some pointers if someone > would be so kind. Thomas Nystrom has found the necessary fixes to our driver, I should be committing them this weekend (and MFCing them to 4.x soon after that.) Soo... wait a few days, and all will be good. :) > I've also found what looks to be good documentation for the chip on the > VIA web site, so I should be able to track down appropriate information > as necessary. Sorry to be pedantic, but there's a problem with that statement. Via's documentation isn't "good", there are many tiny glitches they don't list. Nonetheless, they are far better than Nvidia, who isn't releasing any specs for their NIC chipset... Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message