nVidia on-board nic card

[joepotter]

PC-BSD finds the newish nVidia MCP51 sound chip just fine but fails to see the on-board nic chip. Under linux the "forcedeth" driver is needed to make it work. Any chance to use this chip under BSD yet? It is rather new.

[from a lshwd under Arch Linux]
...
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corp.|MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller (snd-intel8x0)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corp.|MCP51 Ethernet Controller (forcedeth)
...


Regards, Joe

[dracheflieger]

Make sure that you have the "nve" device in your NIC string in /etc/rc.conf. Some of the earlier distros were missing that. If it's on a nForce4 board then you will have problems (freezes the macine for a second every minute or something like that) but the FreeBSD people are working on that and will hopefully be fixed in the next release.

If you have another onboard chip you can try that or a PCI NIC is what most of the others using nForce4 boards have done.

Hope this helps,

[joepotter]

Yes, the Biostar TForce 6100 board has the nForce4 on it. PC-BSD 1.2 does not even see it. I did have another nic in it for awhile but I needed the PCI slot as I have only the two of them on this small motherboard. I could live with using the rt2500 wireless card but I am just stubborn on the subject and want all the gear to work.

I tried a 'make world' with 'tag=.' but that took me to 7-CURRENT and that took down X or at least 'kdm'; but on the plus side the nic card worked fine. Perhaps I mishandled mergemaster.

I then installed FreeBSD 6.1 and needed to do the same thing (make world) to get the nic running. Now I do not know if I want to put PC-BSD back on the drive or configure FreeBSD sitting at 7-CURRENT.

Did I mishandle the tag selection?

-Joe