amd64/92527: no driver for "CICADA VSC 8201 Gigabit LAN PHY " on motherboard GA-K8N51GMF-9

[Brian Reichert]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/92527; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, admin at lissyara.su
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/92527: no driver for "CICADA VSC 8201 Gigabit LAN PHY " on motherboard GA-K8N51GMF-9
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:38:39 -0400

 (As also reported to -amd64).
 
 I don't know if people are tracking such things, but I've sucessfully
 applied the nfe drivers, plus ciphy patches, from:
 
   http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
 
 This is on a GA-K8N51GMF-9 GigaByte motherboard, running FreeBSD
 6.1-RELEASE.
 
 From dmesg:
 
   nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 Networking Adapter> port 0xb000-0xb007 mem 0xf7005000-0
   xf7005fff irq 22 at device 20.0 on pci0
   nfe0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xf7005000
   miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0
   ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus1
   ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
   nfe0: bpf attached
   nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:e4:9f:b4
   nfe0: [MPSAFE]
 
 % ifconfig nfe0
 nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
         inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fee4:9fb4%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
         inet 198.175.254.212 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 198.175.254.255
         ether 00:14:85:e4:9f:b4
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active
 
 I don't have a 1000T hub to negotiate against, but to be able to
 use the on-board NIC at all is a relief.
 
 I'll send an update for amd64/92527, at least announcing this sucess.
 
 Any word on if/when these drivers will be pulled into the tree?
 
 Good work, everyone!
 
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 Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
 55 Crystal Ave. #286			Daytime number: (603) 434-6842
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 Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
 55 Crystal Ave. #286			Daytime number: (603) 434-6842
 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA			BSD admin/developer at large