Subject: Re: NVIDIA nforce3-150 Ethernet on Shuttle SN85G4 Athlon64?
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Mark G. Spencer <mspencer@evidentdata.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 12/15/2003 10:27:51
Hi Frank,

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
> To: "Mark G. Spencer" <mspencer@evidentdata.com>
> Cc: port-amd64@netbsd.org
> Date: Sat, Dec-6-2003 10:17 AM
> Subject: Re: NVIDIA nforce3-150 Ethernet on Shuttle SN85G4 Athlon64?
> =

> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:53:00AM -0800, Mark G. Spencer wrote:
> > "vendor 0x10de product 0x00d6 (ethernet network, revision 0xa5) at PCI =
0 dev5 function 0 not configured"
> =

> Ok. There's no driver for that in NetBSD, nor in any other BSD (or even
> Linux, as far as I can see so far).
> =

> It looks like nVidia isn't giving out documentation for it; they have
> not been easy to get documentation out of in the past (for their
> graphics cards). It looks like Bill Paul of FreeBSD was collecting
> emails to pass on to nVidia in july, in order to get docs. He
> also seems to have found out that the chip is actually a licensed
> Conexant chip, and was hopeful he could get docs from Conexant.
> =

> Until that happens, though, it looks like you'll have to use
> a seperate card for this.
> =

> - Frank

I'm not a programmer so I'm not sure if this would be helpful in regards to=
 NetBSD nforce3 support, but this resource came up when I was looking into =
support for SuSE:

http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/

Thanks,

Mark