Re: nVidia chipset - ethernet support?

From: Harald Schmalzbauer (h_at_schmalzbauer.de)
Date: 03/29/04

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:53:38 +0200

    Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 23:57 schrieb Brian Candler:
    > I have installed FreeBSD-5.2.1 on my brand new Soltek EQ3702A machine,
    > which has an nVidia chipset. I have got most of the on-board hardware to
    > work: kldload snd_ich -- pcm
    > kldload firewire \ to mount my ipod
    > kldload sbp /
    >
    > but I don't seem to be able to get ethernet to work. A google shows that
    > this is a long-standing issue:
    >
    > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-August/016739.htm
    >l http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2003-July/001016.html
    >
    > but I don't see anything else posted since August last year.
    >
    > I did come across this driver against FreeBSD-5.1:
    > http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ [1]
    >
    > Anyone have any experience with it? It claims to be in the official ports
    > tree under net/nvnet, but I don't find it there (not in the 5.2.1-RELEASE
    > ports tree anyway). Well actually, I did find something here:
    > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/net/nvnet [2]

    I tried the nvnet driver from the ports some days ago with a nforce2 and it
    worked flawlessly.

    But you can also use the ProjectEvil ndis wrapper and use the WinXP driver.
    I also did this with great success some weeks ago.

    >
    > Unfortunately the driver page [1] doesn't link to the Linux driver it
    > requires, and the port at [2] links to a different version of nvnet than
    > the one at [1].
    >
    > If anyone has this working with FreeBSD-5.2.1 (and either an up-to-date
    > port, or a pointer to the correct Linux module required), that would save
    > me some random hacking.
    >
    > Incidentally, my machine has two VGA ports. If anyone knows how to get both
    > of those working together with XFree86, that would be appreciated too!

    You need the proprietary nvidia driver (from ports/x11/nvidia-driver). See the
    docs in the working directory of the port for more info, if you need a sample
    dual-layout I can send you mine.

    Best regards,

    -Harry

    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Brian.
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