On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:00:06AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2008 03:07:47 pm Dennis Pashutinsky wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Does any body know about SiS191 Ethernet Controller support in FreeBSD ? > > I use FreeBSD 7.0 Release and see message like 'no driver attached' in > > dmesg. System doesn't see my neywork card :-( > > There currently isn't a driver for this card (it's a different chipset from > sis(4) apparently and supports GigE). It doesn't appear that a datasheet is > available from sis.com either. >
As John said, there is no driver for SiS190/SiS191 gigabit controller. Accoring to .INF file of Windows driver from vendor the hardware supports Tx/Rx checksum offload, jumbo frame as well as WOL. Linux have a driver for these controllers but the code has lots of magic registers and hardcoded magic parameters so it's very hard to understand what the magic value really means. So I guess Linux also lacks documentation for the hardware and they may have spent hardtime to make it work. Maybe the last resort in FreeBSD would be ndis(4). I don't have SiS190/SiS191 hardware so I don't know whether ndis(4) works or not but you can get help from weongyo@ for ndis(4) issues. > -- > John Baldwin -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
