Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nve0 nvidia onboard ethernet dies daily on 6.0 beta1 Message-ID: <20050819105908.GO61271@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <4305B410.2030207@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <20050818200208.26042.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> <4304F83E.6090400@t-hosting.hu> <4305B410.2030207@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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--w3uUfsyyY1Pqa/ej Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:27:28PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > I'm also interested in fixing the omnipresent nve-problems, but reading= =20 > the manpages for nve(4) reveals the bad circumstance that this driver=20 > seems to be 'wrapped' around a Linux binary object. Nvidia obviously=20 > isn't willing to offer documentation about the chip's internals so it=20 > will be hard to develop an open source driver for this NIC. That sounds= =20 > to me to get happy with a 'ever GIANT locked' nve NIC using FreeBSD 6.X The Linux kernel includes a real opensource driver in the kernel for some time now, called 'forcedeth'. It seems that this works better than the nVidia driver. See http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/ http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/nforce-net-to-forcedeth.htm For someone with enough driver-writing-fu it would be possible to look at the linux code and port it (GPL), or even better, write a new BSD licensed driver based on the things they do. That someone is not me, however... --Stijn --=20 Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking. --w3uUfsyyY1Pqa/ej Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDBbt8Y3r/tLQmfWcRAjc1AKCXCdbkBH/Xua6UbJFQ9TUYuQiAewCfcyWo X+7DhQ+2PdYBSPBc891Zzi0= =NYBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --w3uUfsyyY1Pqa/ej--
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