Re: D-Link DGE-500T support

From: Will Andrews <will_at_csociety.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:23:53 -0700
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:49:50AM -0500, Nick H. - Network Operations wrote:
> I attempted to use a D-Link DGE-500T card this weekend on 5.1-RELEASE
> (and -CURRENT) with no success.  It is unable to probe the device and find a
> proper driver for it.  My question is: are there any plans currently to
> provide support for this card?  If there is already support for it (which
> may be the case) then which driver is it using?  I tried a GENERIC kernel
> with all the default drivers, but it diddnt work with them.  I can
> eventually get dmesg output again, but I'd need to bring the server down to
> put the card back in.  Any help is more than welcome.  Thank you!

This card's chipset is the NatSemi gigE chipset, which is
supported by the nge(4) driver.  However, as nge(4) cards are
relatively uncommon, support is not enabled by default in the
GENERIC kernel.  You can load the if_nge module, however.

kldload if_nge

In fact, the only gigE chipset common enough to make it into
GENERIC is the Broadcom, supported by bge(4).

Regards,
-- 
wca
Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 07:23:54 UTC

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