Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:36:43 -0500 From: "hauan david" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2 Message-ID: <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC6579C31@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Technical Director [mailto:technical@server1.ultratrends.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:30 PM > To: Red > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2 > > > > Red, > > Wow, Ma'am or Sir... <-- <SNICKER> > > I do believe the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 MCP Integrated controller > will operate > with the /usr/ports/net/nvnet port. > > >From the port pkg-desc: > > > bash-2.05b# cat pkg-descr > > This port contains a driver for the NVIDIA nForce MCP > Ethernet adapter. > > It contains a wrapper that replaces the Linux nvnet.c, and > links against > > the Linux binary only object file (nvnetlib.o) included in > the NVIDIA > > driver source distribution. > > > > This should work on all nForce and nForce2 based > motherboards that have > > the onboard MCP MAC enabled. > > Hope this helps. > > R. > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Red wrote: > > > Dear Ma'am or Sir: > > Is FreeBSD in versions 4 or 5 fully supported on the Gigabyte > > GA-7N400 Pro2 which uses the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 Ultra 400 Memory / > > AGP/ PCI Controller (PAC) and the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 MCP Integrated > > Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)? The processor is an AMD Athlon XP > > with and nVIDIA GeForce 5200 video card and 1 Giga Byte of Ram. > > Thank you, > > Marvin C. Bell > > NRA Endowment, > > Sam's Club Member, > > Former L/ Cpl 10th Marines. > > here is my dmesg output on ASUS A7N8X nForce2 running 5.2.1 #02 nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP2 Networking Adapter> port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xe0000000-0 xe0000fff irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0 nv0: Ethernet address 00:0e:a6:8c:04:8a miibus0: <MII bus> on nv0 rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto davehelp
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