FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2

[hauan david]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Technical Director [mailto:technical at server1.ultratrends.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:30 PM
> To: Red
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Gigabyte Motherboard GA-7N400 Pro2
> 
> 
> 
> Red,
> 
> Wow, Ma'am or Sir... <-- <SNICKER>
> 
> I do believe the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 MCP Integrated controller 
> will operate
> with the /usr/ports/net/nvnet port.
> 
> >From the port pkg-desc:
> 
> > bash-2.05b# cat pkg-descr
> > This port contains a driver for the NVIDIA nForce MCP 
> Ethernet adapter.
> > It contains a wrapper that replaces the Linux nvnet.c, and 
> links against
> > the Linux binary only object file (nvnetlib.o) included in 
> the NVIDIA
> > driver source distribution.
> >
> > This should work on all nForce and nForce2 based 
> motherboards that have
> > the onboard MCP MAC enabled.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> R.
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Red wrote:
> 
> > Dear Ma'am or Sir:
> > Is FreeBSD in versions 4 or 5 fully supported on the Gigabyte
> > GA-7N400 Pro2 which uses the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 Ultra 400 Memory /
> > AGP/ PCI Controller (PAC) and the nVIDIA nFORCE 2 MCP Integrated
> > Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)?  The processor is an AMD Athlon XP
> > with and nVIDIA GeForce 5200 video card and 1 Giga Byte of Ram.
> > Thank you,
> > Marvin C. Bell
> > NRA Endowment,
> > Sam's Club Member,
> > Former L/ Cpl 10th Marines.
> >

here is my dmesg output on ASUS A7N8X nForce2 running 5.2.1 #02
nv0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP2 Networking Adapter>
port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xe0000000-0 xe0000fff irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0
nv0: Ethernet address 00:0e:a6:8c:04:8a miibus0: <MII bus> on nv0
rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

dave