NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Interface

[Angelo Turetta]

Joe Holden wrote:
> Hi collective,
> 
> It's an Athlon 64 board, with an MCP51 NIC, this card is supported under 
>  Linux using the forcedeth driver, having taken a look at if_nve.c, it 
> doesn't appear to be supported.

It's supported by the nfe(4) driver, which has already been committed to 
7-CURRENT.
For 6-STABLE (and 6.2-RELEASE, previous releases did not even bootstrap 
on that chipset), please follow the discussions regarding nve/nfe at:

     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108861
and
 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=127522+0+archive/2007/freebsd-net/20070211.freebsd-net

Hope this helps
Angelo Turetta