FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Tyler Gee]

Working like a charm (with the 88E1111 patch )

FreeBSD xxx 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #3: Wed Apr 26 21:50:14 HST 2006    
root at so uth:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESKBOT  amd64

MS-7207 Motherboard

Thanks!
Tyler

On 4/26/06, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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