FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Yuri Pankov]

Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
> I am providing a FreeBSD device driver of NVIDIA nForce network adapter.
> It is a native device driver and is based on the OpenBSD nfe driver.
> The latest driver was tested on FreeBSD 6.1-RC/amd64 and seems to work stably
> on my machine (ASUS A8N-SLI Premium).
> 
> It can be downloaded at the following URL.
> http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
> 
> Best regards
> ---
> S. Tagashira
> 

I've tried this driver on recent FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT/amd64. Driver
compiles, this is what I get after kldload if_nfe:

nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xe800-0xe807 mem
0xf5102000-0xf5102fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0
nfe0: bpf attached
nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:ea:7d:f3:20
nfe0: [MPSAFE]
pci1: driver added
miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus0
ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto
nfe0: link state changed to DOWN
nfe0: gigabit link up
nfe0: link state changed to UP

ifconfig output:

nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
        inet6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe7d:f320%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        ether 00:0f:ea:7d:f3:20
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

Looks ok, but when I try to ping 10.10.10.2 it says 'host is down'.
Though it works OK with if_nve driver.

Anyway, thanks for your work!

Yuri