FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Pascal Hofstee]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 05:38 -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> man .. still too early ..
> compiles ok but no tx/rx
> thank's, but your's is working?
> 
> João
> 
> nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP7 Networking Adapter> port 0xd400-0xd407 mem 
> 0xf6000000-0xf6000fff irq 20 at device 5.0 on pci0
> nve0: Ethernet address 00:04:61:ff:ff:ff
> miibus0: <MII bus> on nve0
> ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus0
> ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> nve0: Ethernet address: 00:04:61:ff:ff:ff

Yes .. it's working like a charm here ... Keep in mind that in order for
the Cicada PHY to work, you Will Need to patch Shigeaki Tagashira's
ciphy.patch to your /usr/src tree Before building your kernel.

cd /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/
patch -p0 < /path/to/ciphy.patch

http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/ciphy.patch

(just in case you lost the URL to the nfe website)

The Cicada PHY patch is Not part of the nfe-tarballs provided by
Shigeaki Tagahira.

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  Pascal Hofstee