AMD Athlon64...

[Martin Cracauer]

Daniel Eischen wrote on Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:12:11PM -0400: 
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > At 07:11 PM 5/16/2005, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> >
> > >Daniel O'Connor said the following on 5/16/2005 9:05 PM:
> > >
> > >>The vge driver is in the 5.3 GENERIC kernel. I normally make my kernels fairly minimal but it seems the vge driver doesn't work properly as a module, only built into the kernel.
> > >>
> > >>Maybe you're thinking of the nvnet driver.
> > >Yup. I am...
> >
> > Any status on this driver? I have a client who is about to go to Linux
> > because he can't get the motherboard's NIC to work.
> 
> C'mon, you can get supported ethernet cards for $20 or less.

Not sure whether this is too late by now, but if_vge works as a module
when loaded when the system is up, but just doesn't work when loaded
from loader.conf.

A simple rc.d emtry to load the module will solve this.  Or compile it
in statically.

Now, the performance is awful, about half of what the nvidia chip on
the NForce 250 GB does (which in turn was too much trouble elsewhere).

Martin
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