[haiku-development] Re: Terminal & VIA Rhine

  • From: Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:54:36 +0100

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

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nfe&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html

http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html

/Fredrik Ekdahl


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