nvnet does not see NVidia's adapter on amd64

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:27:59PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > > I just installed a fresh 5.4-RC2 on IWill's DK8N motherboard:
> > >
> > >       http://www.iwillusa.com/product_2.asp?p_id=27
> > >
> > > I transfered the net/nvnet's distfiles using a floppy and built the
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, kldload-ing if_nv did not make the interface appear...
> > > Putting
> > > ``if_nv_load="YES"'' into loader.conf and rebooting did not help
> > > either.
> > >
> > > Is there anything, you can suggest for me try right off the bat?
> >
> > Try using the tarball from here http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet
> 
> Yes! That -- combined with the 
> ftp://download1.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0301/ -- worked!
> 
> It currently reports the status of 100baseTX, even though, according to the 
> switch, the connection is at 1Gb. But this is such a minor issue compared to 
> having no network at all...
> 
> Could update the net/nvnet port? When 5.4 gets released, I imagine plenty of 
> people to be in my position...
> 
When 5.4 gets released, we likely will have if_nve(4) MFC'ed already.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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