From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 17:52:38 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 874AD16A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360B443D46 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 73so224564rnk for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:52:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=EDNYfoR2d2vdYgqUURhLH9hL1KwGp/B6ZVW3Gd7xSu7GLZQdWP7q3ayKgz7J3MGGHrptbyWTFvaP7DwsEW7JeWqU9YMSdj8ZaUehLCtK2Chqh8HzRuLy4d3ql11CYxkMup7kh3JwiUIwH9A5XbwcCvNbjyb4YaLqom8FRvwBXNQ Received: by 10.38.152.39 with SMTP id z39mr1527902rnd; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.72.65 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:52:37 +0200 From: Gert Cuykens To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041018172918.GD5179@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041018032322.GA2635@dragon.nuxi.com> <1098094699.31294.2.camel@localhost> <20041018172918.GD5179@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: nvidia nic X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens 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 17:52:38 -0000 Ok i agree but you also have to agree no matter how they made the chipset there has to be a solution that works els it would not work in windows either ? A os just tells the computer what to do right ? So its just a matter of asking the pc nicely enough :) On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:29:18 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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) >