System does not see network devices

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:20:04PM +0300, Alexander Gumenyuk wrote:
> Thanks Pyun,
> 
> Official driver (
> http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?driverId=205) works good
> with my device.

Last time I tried their driver it was not stable enough to run on
production box and it's performance was sub-optimal. I was able to
lock up system with will so you may want to test their driver as
much as you can.

> It's strange why it is not included in standard installation. May be due to
> need to accept license agreement?
> 

It's only binary driver and their license looks too restrictive.

> 2009/5/11 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>
> 
> > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 03:39:24PM +0300, Alexander Gumenyuk wrote:
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > Can somebody tell me which of following network devices of my laptop
> > (Compaq
> > > 6730s *FU573ES*) is/will be supported by FreeBSD?
> > > I tried FreeBSD 7.1-Release i386 and none of them is detected by system.
> > >
> > > First one is Intel WiFi Link 5100, model: 512AG_MMW.
> > >
> > > Second one is Marvell Gigabit (don't know specific model)
> > >
> > > Here is pciconfig -lv info on them:
> > >
> > > none1 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x12068086 chip=0x42328086
> > rev=0x00
> > > hdr=0x00
> > >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> > >     class      = network
> > > none2 at pci0:69:0:0:    class=0x020000 card=0x30e9103c chip=0x436c11ab
> > > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> > >     vendor     = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
> > >     class      = network
> > >     subclass   = ethernet
> > >
> >
> > This looks like Marvell Yukon 88E8072 Gigabit ethernet controller.
> > It's not yet supported by msk(4) and needs more work to support
> > Yukon Extreme and Yukon Supreme prior to adding the hardware to the
> > supported list. I don't have that hardware so I'm not sure when the
> > support code would be written though.
> >
> > > Which *drivers/boot options/kernel modules* should I use to enable them?
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK Marvell used to release binary drivers for FreeBSD. I guess
> > you can use them until msk(4) has a support code for 88E8072.
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >