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Subject: Re: Marvel NFE driver in 6 CURRENT
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stan wrote:
> I'm building a new machine which (I beleive) needs the NFE driver fr the
> onboard NIC's. 
>
> It appears that there is a third part (as in not in tree) driver for this
> chipset, Why is this not in 6.2 CURRENT? Are the issues with it?
>
>   

I am using this driver in 6.2-RELEASE:

http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki//software/freebsd-nfe.html

I have no idea if it has been merged in STABLE or CURRENT, but it has
been running for about 50 days on 6.2-RELEASE/amd64 and had no problems
with it.