floating a server room... how do you deal with ethernet connections?

2006-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm currently planning renovations for the power mains supplying are server room. One of the ideas I have is to float the entire room using a isolation transformer. The only problem to this solution, that I can think of, is that all of the equipment that's attached to the other end of the Ethernet

Re: Anyone heard about Broadband over power lines???

2006-05-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/23/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A while ago, a group of individuals have demonstrated us with devices that can be used to extend your network throughout every corner of your company through the use of electric outlet... A quick googling tells me that such technolog

Marvell YukonII Status Update?

2006-06-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone know what's going on with YukonII support in FreeBSD, specifically the Marvell chips used in PCI-Express add-on cards? Last I checked somebody was developing an experimental driver and Marvell had just released the code to their FreeBSD 5.x/6.x driver: mykbsd60x86-8.12.2.3.tar (bindary kmo

Re: Marvell YukonII Status Update?

2006-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Anyone know what's going on with YukonII support in FreeBSD, > specifically the Marvell chips used in PCI-Express add-on cards? > > Last I checked

Re: Marvell YukonII Status Update?

2006-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:14PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/30/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:52PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > Anyone kno

Re: Marvell YukonII Status Update?

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:33:51AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/1/06, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:14PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 6/30/06, Py

Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter: $130 ~ 150 Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter: $40 ~ 60 Both use the i82572EI chip and both appear to use the same PCB. Would I be correct in assuming it's a marketing scam to get

Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
When is FreeBSD going to support the 82563EB/82564EB? Do we have anything yet? http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/docs/82563_64_docs.htm -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-net@f

Re: Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Deuskar, Prafulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When is FreeBSD going to support the 82563EB/82564EB? Do we have anything >yet? > >http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/docs/82563_64_docs.htm > Have you tried the 6.0.5 driver from Intel's website? http://downloadfinder.int

Re: Intel PRO/1000 EB, 82563EB and 82564EB.

2006-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/06, Gleb Smirnoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:02:20PM -0700, Nikolas Britton wrote: N> When is FreeBSD going to support the 82563EB/82564EB? Do we have anything N> yet? N> N> http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/docs/82563_64_docs

Re: Request status on sk(4) for 88E8053 Yukon PCI-E GbE

2006-09-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/6/06, Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/05/06 17:19 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Andrew Sinclair wrote: > >> $ pciconf -lv >> ... >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:class=0x02 card=0x00011179 chip=0x436211ab >> rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Marvell