Any plans to support nForce2 ethernet?

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

Stephen Hocking wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have one of those nifty shuttle boxes with the nForce2 motherboard, and the 
> onbaord ethernet isn't supported by 5.2.1. The kernel notes that there's an 
> ethernet device there, but doesn't attach a driver to it. Doesn anyone plan to 
> do this? There's a reverse engineered Linux driver for (forcedeth) asn well as 
> nvidia's own drivers. My own rather hazy understanding is that it's a variant 
> of the Realtek chipset.
> 
> 
> 	Stephen

theres a port which contains the linux binary distribution of this driver.

have a look in /usr/ports/net/nvnet

it will create a kernel-module and at least it lets you use the nforce2 
nic ;)