Subject: Intel Dual Gigabit Adapter i82546GB not supported...
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/04/2004 13:28:54 
Hi

I am setting up two firewalls for which we bought two Dual Gigabit
Network Adapters of the above mentionned flavor.

While wondering, why the two ports show the same MAC Address, I
discovered the following in the manpage: wm(4)

--------------------------------- 8< ---------------------------------
BUGS
     The Intel i82545GM and i82546GB controllers with internal SERDES are not
     currently supported.
--------------------------------- 8< ---------------------------------

Ugh! Now im lost. Are there plans, to support this anytime soon?
What is an internal SERDES?

Thanks
Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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