FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Shigeaki Tagashira]

Thanks for your reports.

I have not tested the driver on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT and on the Cicada phys.
I'll try it on these platforms.

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S. Tagashira

Tyler Gee wrote:
> 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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