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 > 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 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 -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking.
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