Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:16:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <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: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0508191512550.29769@tea.blinkenlights.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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > > I'm also interested in fixing the omnipresent nve-problems, but reading the > manpages for nve(4) reveals the bad circumstance that this driver seems to be > 'wrapped' around a Linux binary object. Nvidia obviously isn't willing to > offer documentation about the chip's internals so it will be hard to develop > an open source driver for this NIC. That sounds to me to get happy with a > 'ever GIANT locked' nve NIC using FreeBSD 6.X The linux forcedeth driver is supposedly quite decent nowadays, nvidia even helped adding gigabit support. It should be a good source of information for building an opensource bsd driver. That said, nvidia just aint too great at building ethernet chips, if decent performance is a requirement I'd suggest getting something else. -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SOC.4.61.0508191512550.29769>