SolarFlare 10GB card

[aurfalien]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:48:52 -0700
> aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:03 -0700
>>> aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Don't use the driver on their website. It's very old. Use the driver
>>>>> that comes with FreeBSD 9.1 which you don't have to compile. 
>>>> 
>>>> Yea, that driver sux actually.
>>>> 
>>>> But how would I compile the driver in 9.2RC1 as I see the source is included?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Why do you believe the driver in 9.1-RELEASE sucks? Do you have a
>>> specific issue?
>> 
>> I meant the driver off there site.  I'm trying the one with 9.1 in a few.
>> 
>> Didn't meant to sound like a barney.
>> 
>> Unsure why the SolarFlare driver is even up on there site, seems unstable.
>> 
>> - aurf
> 
> Ahhh, I see. 
> 
> You won't have to compile anything with FreeBSD 9.1 or later. Just boot
> up the OS and you'll see sfxge in the output of ifconfig.

Well my fine feathered friend, thats my dilemma.

I do not see the SolarFlare via ifconfig.

Now pciconf -l shows much stuff, even my built in 1Gb nics but not my 10Gb Solars.

I'm sure one of the many PCI devices is listed, but not as a SlarFlare, but some generic device.

Any guidance?

- aurf