From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 17:29:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948B616A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E6F43D55 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:29:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9IHTJhA005591; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9IHTJpc005590; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:29:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20041018172918.GD5179@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041018032322.GA2635@dragon.nuxi.com> <1098094699.31294.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia nic X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:29:20 -0000 On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:54:02PM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > I did put a other nic but i dont understand why there are no drivers > for it ? It seems there are for linux ? So why not for freebsd ? The nVidia NIC driver is a propriety binary-only driver and nVidia only supports Linux, not FreeBSD. Even in the Linux world there have been major problems with the AMD64 nVidia NIC driver. > I also dont understand why the apci from the sk8n is not working > because there is a bug in the chipset ? I dont say its not true but if > it was a bug in the chipset self how come my xp doesnt have any > problem with it what so ever ? Because OEM's (and mobo makers) think ALL THE WORLD IS MICROSOFT WINDOWS. The OEM/ODM/mobo makers don't test with anything except MS-Windows. I'm quite surprised you can be a BSD/Linux user and never run into BIOS and ACPI errors that don't happen on MS-Windows. Google around and you will find PLENTY of stories about the problems of ACPI on non-MS-Windows OS's and problems running Linux (and thus BSD) on the SK8N and other nVidia nForce3-150 chipset mobos. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)