Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:12:47 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Dennis Pashutinsky <k-unker@fbsd.kiev.ua>, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiS191 Ethernet Controller Message-ID: <20080312001247.GB12585@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <200803110900.07218.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200803102107.47752.k-unker@fbsd.kiev.ua> <200803110900.07218.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:00:06AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2008 03:07:47 pm Dennis Pashutinsky wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Does any body know about SiS191 Ethernet Controller support in FreeBSD ? > > I use FreeBSD 7.0 Release and see message like 'no driver attached' in > > dmesg. System doesn't see my neywork card :-( > > There currently isn't a driver for this card (it's a different chipset from > sis(4) apparently and supports GigE). It doesn't appear that a datasheet is > available from sis.com either. > As John said, there is no driver for SiS190/SiS191 gigabit controller. Accoring to .INF file of Windows driver from vendor the hardware supports Tx/Rx checksum offload, jumbo frame as well as WOL. Linux have a driver for these controllers but the code has lots of magic registers and hardcoded magic parameters so it's very hard to understand what the magic value really means. So I guess Linux also lacks documentation for the hardware and they may have spent hardtime to make it work. Maybe the last resort in FreeBSD would be ndis(4). I don't have SiS190/SiS191 hardware so I don't know whether ndis(4) works or not but you can get help from weongyo@ for ndis(4) issues. > -- > John Baldwin -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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