Intel 82541 Gigabit Ethernet

[Sten Spans]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote:

> I was going through the hardware notes. We already use Intel's NIC's and
> are planning to switch to Dual Intel® 82541 Gigabit Ethernet. Its not
> listed in the the hardware notes but we use the 82555 on FBSD4.8 (fxp)
> driver and it works fine (and it is not listed either). Is anyone
> working with it or have tried it (the 82541)? What is the status? any
> plans for a driver that would support those? Also, will the fxp driver
> work  (enabling functionality at 100Mbps only) but a
> patch/another_driver is required to get the gigabit?

These cards use the em driver, and should work out of the box.
If they don't then you may have to add some pci id's to the driver,
which should be a relatively simple procedure.

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Sten Spans

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