freebsd stable - Jan 2007 - does -STABLE support VIA VT6103 NIC?

I'm looking at the release notes for 6.2-RELEASE:

  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET

I'm considering the botherboard on this 1U system:

 
http://www.ironsystems.com/Customkititems.asp?kc=SYS%2DS%2DA113%2D01&Cc=ACLASS

Which describes a VIA 'VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY' interface.

This is not specifically mentioned as supported; does anyone know for sure?

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Brian Reichert wrote:
> I'm looking at the release notes for 6.2-RELEASE:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
> 
> I'm considering the botherboard on this 1U system:
> 
>  
http://www.ironsystems.com/Customkititems.asp?kc=SYS%2DS%2DA113%2D01&Cc=ACLASS
> 
> Which describes a VIA 'VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY'
interface.
> 
> This is not specifically mentioned as supported; does anyone know for sure?
> 
According to http://developer.novell.com/yes/66541.htm, the VT6105 is a
Via Rhine III adapter, which is supported by the vr driver.


-Proto

Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> wrote:
 > I'm looking at the release notes for 6.2-RELEASE:
 > 
 >   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
 > 
 > I'm considering the botherboard on this 1U system:
 > 
 >  
http://www.ironsystems.com/Customkititems.asp?kc=SYS%2DS%2DA113%2D01&Cc=ACLASS
 > 
 > Which describes a VIA 'VT6103 10/100 Base-T Ethernet PHY'
interface.

The actual interface is a VT6105.  The 6103 is just the PHY.
This chip is called "Rhine III", and it's listed in the
FreeBSD release notes.

 > This is not specifically mentioned as supported; does anyone know for
sure?

It's supported by the vr(4) driver.  I've got two VT610x
NICs on my VIA EDEN PD10k board, too.  They work perfectly
fine.

Best regards
   Oliver

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