From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 14:21:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37F816A4CF for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:21:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B5343D64 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:21:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9655E69A3F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:21:01 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040706102101.642a7b61.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [REPOST] Compatibility with certain VIA and Realtek NICs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:21:03 -0000 I got a few responses regarding this post, but I'm really looking for some positive, "yes, I'm using it" or "I tried and failed": Having a little trouble ensuring hardware compatibility. Some of the units we're considering have one of the following NIC chipsets: VIA 6103 VIA 6303 VIA 6306 Realtek 8201 Looking through the hardware compatibility notes, as well as the man pages for vr(4), ed(4), and rl(4) doesn't seem to confirm or deny whether any of these units will work with FreeBSD (although it'd be a little overwhelming to list every card that isn't supported in the docs ;) I don't know how different a 6103 is from (for example) a 6105 (which is mentioned as supported in the man page for vr) so I don't know what the chances are that it will be supported. Has anyone used any of these chipsets, or can anyone say with confidence that these chipsets are very familiar with supported chipsets? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com