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From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Sun Gigaswift card
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:27:27PM -0500, Jim O'Gorman wrote:
> Just a quick question to confirm: The Sun Gigaswift card is not
> supported on FreeBSD Sparc64, correct?
> 
> Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-sparc64.html#ETHERNET
> it shows the GEM driver, but that driver is not seeing the gigaswift
> card, so I just wanted to confirm that it is not something I am doing
> wrong.

Correct, it's not supported.  The GEM driver in FreeBSD supports the
ethernet controller that's on the SunBlade-100 systems which isn't
the same ethernet controller as what SUN calls the GEM interface.

>From the gem(4) manual page:

     The gem driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found
     mostly in the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware,
     as well as many Sun UltraSPARCs.
 
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