Subject: Re: nvnet (nforce network driver)
To: Harley Laue <harley-laue@uiowa.edu>
From: Tracy Di Marco White <netbsd@gendalia.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/18/2005 20:33:15
In message <41EDBFF0.1060004@uiowa.edu>, Harley Laue writes:
>I'm quite new to NetBSD (as in I just installed it today, but have had
>some experience with FreeBSD, but most of my experience is with Linux.)
>I was wondering if there's a way to get an nForce network card to run on
>NetBSD. FreeBSD has a ported version of nvnet, and Linux has forcedeth
>and the official nvnet. I was wondering if NetBSD had any similar driver
>which I've just missed in my search on google, and on the web site.
>FreeBSD also has the NDIS for loading Windows network drivers. I also
>couldn't find anything like this for NetBSD.
>
>If there isn't any driver for the nForce network card I was wondering if
>someone who knows NetBSD coding could port one of the above drivers to
>work with NetBSD. If there isn't anyway for any of these options to be
>used (an existing driver or porting one to NetBSD) I'll just give in and
>buy and NetBSD compatible card.
If anyone wants to work on this, I've got one in my build machine and
I can do any testing fairly easily. (It also has a 3com chipset.)
-Tracy