Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Oliver Herold
hint.nve.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints should do the magic. If have a motherboard with nforce4 (430) chipset, nve isn't even in action, to use the onboard nic I have to use nfe but I don't need the phy patch. Cheers, Oliver On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Matthew Bloch wrote:

Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Matthew Bloch
Garrett Cooper wrote: > nfe exists, but you need to grab your sources _prior_ to booting up for > the first time (can retrieve them by adding the source distributions), > because the RELEASE kernel doesn't have the nfe driver, even though the > STABLE and CURRENT snapshot ISO ones do. Thanks - I d

Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Norbert Papke
On June 22, 2007, Matthew Bloch wrote: > So in order to use this on our bootstrap system, I will need to rebuild > the kernel, taking nve out and compiling nfe (with the relevant PHY > patch) in. Is that about the quickest way to fix this? I'd be very > interested to know if anyone could suggest

Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Matthew Bloch wrote: Hi there, I'm a Linux expert, FreeBSD novice trying to get a FreeBSD bootstrap together for our network and am stuck because nForce network chips are a pain in the backside :) I wonder if anyone can confirm what I've found and suggest an easier way forward: Basically I can

nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Matthew Bloch
Hi there, I'm a Linux expert, FreeBSD novice trying to get a FreeBSD bootstrap together for our network and am stuck because nForce network chips are a pain in the backside :) I wonder if anyone can confirm what I've found and suggest an easier way forward: Basically I can install 6.2-RELEASE off