What OS release are you going to be using, 8.2 ? The driver in HEAD is the latest code, the internal tarball goes thru release machinery so it is lagging a bit (2.3.8 vs 2.3.11), you should be OK in either case, but I'd recommend the newer.
Jack On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Sami Halabi <sodyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > i have a 82599EB network card. > the ixgbe driver on 8* supports 82598 cards, although it identified my card > but i'm not sure it will work fine and won't make kernel panics, since its > a > production server i want to put a good driver that will work without > problems. > > I just found this from the Intel website. > Looks like they have added support for the 82598 and 82599 which isn't on > the ixgbe driver on 8 stable/release. > > * > > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=14688&lang=eng > * > > is it safe to dowload and put the files of this driver in /sys/dev/ixgbe > and > then install it? > > is it simply: *make && make install && make clean*? > i guess i need to recompile the kernel also because ixgbe is on the GENERIC > kernel. > > what do you advise me? > > > > -- > Sami Halabi > Information Systems Engineer > NMS Projects Expert > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"