On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:27:59PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > I just installed a fresh 5.4-RC2 on IWill's DK8N motherboard: > > > > > > http://www.iwillusa.com/product_2.asp?p_id=27 > > > > > > I transfered the net/nvnet's distfiles using a floppy and built the > > > driver. > > > > > > Unfortunately, kldload-ing if_nv did not make the interface appear... > > > Putting > > > ``if_nv_load="YES"'' into loader.conf and rebooting did not help > > > either. > > > > > > Is there anything, you can suggest for me try right off the bat? > > > > Try using the tarball from here http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet > > Yes! That -- combined with the > ftp://download1.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0301/ -- worked! > > It currently reports the status of 100baseTX, even though, according to the > switch, the connection is at 1Gb. But this is such a minor issue compared to > having no network at all... > > Could update the net/nvnet port? When 5.4 gets released, I imagine plenty of > people to be in my position... > When 5.4 gets released, we likely will have if_nve(4) MFC'ed already.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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