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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:20:04 GMT
From: Buck Jones <buck@bvminc.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: no support for Nvidia chip set / nic
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>Number:         114797
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       no support for Nvidia nNforce 6100
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    linimon
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 21 22:30:12 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 15 05:37:43 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 15 05:37:43 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Buck Jones
>Release:        6.2 release
>Organization:
buckjones.net
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
I attempted to install BSD 6.1 Rel on a BioStar MB with Nvidia nNforce
6100 chip set.

No support in BSD 6.1 for the Nic.

Had to change MB to VIA to make it work.

Found a unsupported Linux driver which the docs says is prone to lockups,
no info how to make it work.

forcedeth.c

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.21.html

Just F.Y.I.

Buck

>How-To-Repeat:
buy a biostar mb with a Nforce 6100 chip set and try to install bsd.
>Fix:
add support in the next release of BSD 6.3, 6.4, etc to support the Nvidia
Nforce ethernet controller(s).

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Sun Jul 22 02:07:20 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Please try a version of -current that has the nfe driver and report 
back whether this fixes your problem. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jul 22 02:07:20 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114797 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 15 05:37:17 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout (> 5 months). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114797 
>Unformatted:
Have you tried nfe on more recent RELENG_6?
