nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

[Oliver Herold]

hint.nve.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints should do the magic.
If have a motherboard with nforce4 (430) chipset, nve isn't even in action,
to use the onboard nic I have to use nfe but I don't need the phy patch.


Cheers,

Oliver

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Matthew Bloch wrote:
> Hi there, I'm a Linux expert, FreeBSD novice trying to get a FreeBSD
> bootstrap together for our network and am stuck because nForce network
> chips are a pain in the backside :)
> 
> I wonder if anyone can confirm what I've found and suggest an easier way
> forward:
> 
> Basically I can install 6.2-RELEASE off a CD-ROM in the office but there
> is no nve0 device on this particular Gigabyte m61pm-S2 board - based on
> similar experience with the Linux forcedeth driver, I assume that we
> just need a newer driver.  However I understand that the nve driver is a
> dead-end and that the nfe driver will replace it from 7.0.
> 
> So in order to use this on our bootstrap system, I will need to rebuild
> the kernel, taking nve out and compiling nfe (with the relevant PHY
> patch) in.  Is that about the quickest way to fix this?  I'd be very
> interested to know if anyone could suggest a solution that didn't
> involve rebuilding the kernel.
> 
> Thanks for any tips...
> 
> -- 
> Matthew
> 
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