Marvell 8053 support?

[Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner]

Just so you don't waste your time downloading, IA64 := Itanium. I don't
think you have one of those in your Gigabyte motherboard... unless
you're REALLY good with a soldering gun!
You should be using AMD64; term used to describe both Intel and AMD 64
bit x86 CPUs.

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:15 +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Mars G. Miro <marsgmiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
> > > Mars G. Miro wrote:
> > > > Greetz!
> > > >
> > > > I happen to play w/ a newish Gigabyte mobo that has an on-board
> > > > Marvell 8053 GigE NIC. FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 i386, amd64 does not seem to
> > > > support it. Does anyone know if this is supported? I'm currently
> > > > taking a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/ , tho this
> > > > NIC isnt mentioned there at all.
> > >
> > > A quick glance at msk(4) on -CURRENT shows that 88E8053 is supposed to
> > > work with it.  Unfortunately it seems that it needs some KPIs that is
> > > only present in -HEAD so backporting is not trivial.
> > >
> >
> > hmmm... downloading CURRENT snapshots now.. lesse if this works... The
> > mobo is one of those 'solid-capacitor' mobos (just mentioned on /.)
> > from Gigabyte
> > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2295&ProductName=GA-965P-DQ6
> >
> 
> :Not sure if the snapshot contained the changes, though...  IIRC the
> :January snapshot is not released yet?
> 
> I'll take a stab at the ia64 ISO at
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200701/
> 
> tomorrow when da download finishes ... I'm also downloading da Nov
> 2006 i386/amd64 snapshots and plug in a separate NIC to update to
> -CURRENT just in case da ia64 ISO dont work.
> 
> Thanks .
> 
> 
> :Cheers,
> :--
> :Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> :FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
> 
> 
> > Thanks ;-)
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> > > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> cheers
> mars
> 
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