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Re: Anyone working on Intel 82575 GigE support?
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> So I was foolishly non-specific with my vendor when ordering our new
> webservers, and when they showed up today, they had onboard 82575 gigE
> controllers, which NetBSD doesn't support yet.
>
> Looking at FreeBSD, it looks like they've actually split out support for
> the 82575 and newer chips out of em into an "igb" driver.
They're completely incompatible. So are the new Intel 10Gb chips -- but
the new 1Gb and 10Gb chips are compatible with *each other*.
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