Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:41:40 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [REPOST] Compatibility with certain VIA and Realtek NICs Message-ID: <200407060941.40201.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706102101.642a7b61.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040706102101.642a7b61.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 09:21 am, Bill Moran wrote: > 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? The NY City BSD Users Group (NYCBUG) is building a catalog of contributed dmesg output that may help you. You can search the submitted dmesg's. The search function is below the dmesg submission form at: http://www.nycbug.org/dmesgd/ I encourage everyone to submit your dmesg output. IP and MAC addresses are replaced with x's for security. I hope this helps. Andrew Gould
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