gigabit ethernet pci
The IntelPRO/1000 is a very good gigabit ethernet card, am I correct? I read that it gives lots of diffs and most cards are not that good. I'm looking for a card that is good, supports jumbo frames and is not /that/ expensive ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ The Power to Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express and FreeBSD 4.10
has anyone got the above gigabit ethernet working with freebsd 4.10 ? patching sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c and sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h with the device and vendor IDs in the proper places doesnt seem to work, though the entries exist in the same files in the 4.11 sources. a mailing list search shows it working fine on the ibm t43 notebooks but on freebsd 5.4 instead. however, as mentioned above, RELENG_4 sources contain the device id for the BCM5751M, so i'd assume it'd work there too. there seems to be no special handling of this device in the code, so getting it to work on 4.10 (as opposed to 4.11R) would be as simple as adding in the same device ids. or so i thought. pciconf -l -v yields [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x0944103c chip=0x167d14e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x0 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network subclass = ethernet and a kldload if_bge returns (after patching in device id): bge0: Broadcom BCM5715M Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4101 mem 0xc800-0xc800 irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci16 bge0: firmware handshake timed out bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed! bge0: chip initialization failed device_probe_and_attach: bge0 returned 6 the notebook is a HP nc6230. -- Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL PROTECTED](0 0)http://www.alphaque.com/ +==oOO--(_)--OOo==+ | for a in past present future; do| | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b. | | done; done | +=+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI c
Hi! I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add: - a USB 2.0 PCI card AFAIK, FreeBSD 4.9 only supports USB 1.0. Depending on what you want to do, there are two options: - upgrade to 5.x, which supports USB 2.0 (but is possibly a bit too cutting edge) - use FireWire devices instead of USB 2.0. FireWire is supported in FreeBSD 4.9 -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * It's always darkest right before you step on the cat. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI card for FreeBSD 4.9
I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add: - a USB 2.0 PCI card and - a gigabit ethernet (copper - cat-5 wiring) PCI card What is the best and best supported choices for each of these ? I am happy to blindly follow whatever suggestion for the USB 2.0 card, however for the gigabit card I have had great luck on the 100meg side of thigns with the Intel etherexpress pro (fxp) cards, so if there is a well supported Intel card, that would be best, I guess. But then again, if there is a non intel gigabit card that is the clear leader in freebsd support, I would like to know it thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
