PCI Express 1x NIC

[Mike Tancsa]

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:12:30 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Hello.
>I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a "PCI 
>Express x1" slot.
>Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be 
>Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance.
>
>Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the 
>two? :)


For PCI-E, I am using a Broadcom unit that works well under RELENG_6

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001> mem
0xfddf0000-0xfddfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
bge0: Ethernet address: 00:10:18:14:15:43


bge0 at pci2:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x167714e4 chip=0x167714e4
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device   = 'BCM5750A1 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
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