Gigabit Ethernet controller support (Intel 82563)

[Oliver Fromme]

Emmanuel de Sars wrote:
 > looking for a clear answer about the Intel 82563 eth. controller support 
 > in FreeBSD,

As far as I can tell, the intel 82563 is _not_ an Ethernet
controller, but a MAC/PHY chip.  It is supported by FreeBSD.

If you want to kow if your Ethernet controller is supported,
we need to know what controller it is (e.g. vendor ID and
product ID from "pciconf -lv" output).  I think that the
support for intel NICs is very good, thanks to Jack Vogel,
so yours will probably work fine with either the em(4) or
igb(4) driver.

Best regards
   Oliver

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