FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Terminal & VIA Rhine

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> lör 2007-11-03 klockan 16:54 -0500 skrev Rene Gollent:
> > if_nve would be nice as well when you have time, I have an nforce4
> > eth
> > chipset I can test that one on :)
> If I understand correctly, that driver needs to link against a closed
> library from nvidia. Citation from
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nve&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html
> >
> "This driver is a reimplementation of the NVIDIA supported Linux
> nvnet
>  driver and uses the same closed source API library to access the
> underly-
>  ing hardware.  There is currently no programming documentation
> available
>  for this device, and therefore little is known about the internal
> archi-
>  tecture of the MAC engine itself."
>
> There is however a native driver for FreeBSD called nfe, which I
> think
> would be a better option. See the following links
[...]

Rene or anyone with that chipset: is the nfe driver working correctly
for you on FreeBSD?

Bye,
   Axel.