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. > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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