Intel 82541 Gigabit Ethernet

[Kelly Yancey]

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?
>

  It is listed in the README for the em driver:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/README?rev=1.1.2.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

  Kelly

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