On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:42, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > C'mon, you can get supported ethernet cards for $20 or less.
>
> Not sure whether this is too late by now, but if_vge works as a module
> when loaded when the system is up, but just doesn't work when loaded
> from loader.conf.
>
> A simple rc.d emtry to load the module will solve this.  Or compile it
> in statically.

I am pretty sure both loading it in the loader and post boot doesn't work 
properly but I'm not 100% sure.

> Now, the performance is awful, about half of what the nvidia chip on
> the NForce 250 GB does (which in turn was too much trouble elsewhere).

I haven't tried the performance.. Does it use lots of CPU? Or just transfer 
slowly? (or both)

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