Subject: port-i386/30068: Support for the NVidia Nforce ethernet device
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <wsm@morgart.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/27/2005 02:08:00
>Number:         30068
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Support for the NVidia Nforce ethernet device
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 27 02:08:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     William S. Morgart <wsm@morgart.com>
>Release:        NetBSD 3.99.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD thing.morgart.com 3.99.2 NetBSD 3.99.2 (THING) #0: Wed Apr 6 23:36:02 EDT 2005 root@thing.morgart.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/THING i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	The NVidia NForce ethernet device is currently not
supported. This bug report includes a fix that provides that support -
but the support requires the inclusion of an NVidia supplied library,
i.e. not source code, and thus the support is a loadable kernel module
instead of a kernel device driver.
>How-To-Repeat:
	You can't use a NVidia NForce ethernet device
>Fix:
	Include the loadable kernel module found at:
http://www.morgart.com/NetBSD/nVidia/nvnet/index.html either as a new
package or as a i386 kernel module.

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