On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:00:06AM -0400, John Baldwin
wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 03:07:47 pm Dennis Pashutinsky
wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Does any body know about SiS191 Ethernet
Controller support in FreeBSD ?
> > I use FreeBSD 7.0 Release and see message like
'no driver attached' in
> > dmesg. System doesn't see my neywork card :-(
>
> There currently isn't a driver for this card (it's a
different chipset from
> sis(4) apparently and supports GigE). It doesn't
appear that a datasheet is
> available from sis.com either.
>
As John said, there is no driver for SiS190/SiS191 gigabit
controller. Accoring to .INF file of Windows driver from
vendor the
hardware supports Tx/Rx checksum offload, jumbo frame as
well as
WOL. Linux have a driver for these controllers but the code
has
lots of magic registers and hardcoded magic parameters so
it's very
hard to understand what the magic value really means. So I
guess
Linux also lacks documentation for the hardware and they may
have
spent hardtime to make it work.
Maybe the last resort in FreeBSD would be ndis(4). I don't
have
SiS190/SiS191 hardware so I don't know whether ndis(4) works
or not
but you can get help from weongyo for ndis(4) issues.
> --
> John Baldwin
--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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