[haiku-development] Re: Terminal & VIA Rhine

The last time I tried FBSD7 it identified the card as nve0 I
thought...I can double check though.

Rene

On 11/4/07, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>

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