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Could someone point me in the right direction to find information on onboard ethernet controllers.

I have a nvidia gigabit port on my asus mobo but I have no clue how to interface with it. Kind of a noob question, but help would be much appreciated.

an advice? " take a linux source ", I think is better you
take the latest version kernel. and try to figure out how some device driver works

it´s so hard to find out information about devices such as " chipset, video
card, ethernet, etc " for free.

I must ask you sorry for my poor english.

OpenBSD supports a lot of chipsets - including several NVIDIA Gigabit chipsets via the nfe driver ..

My advice would be to boot the OpenBSD cd41.iso (or one of the snapshot CD's - cd41.iso) and check if OpenBSD detects your device.

If not you'll at least know a little more about the card from what the dmesg tells you..

Good luck..

Above lan chipset use realtek device.

http://www.realtek.com.tw/
What kaind ethernet controller you can detect use DVID, VDID and etc.
You can show use Everest, AIDA and othe.

I think everybody should say that linux is not gonna cut when they request docs. Its sources are too complicated to study for somebody who never read them before. Besides writing drivers based on somebody else's sources entirely means copying their mistakes.

I agree with exkor about the crazy linux source code.

Thanks brynet for the link, I have looked at NetBSD for reference to their PCI bus but I didn't like the way that they handled it, so i scratched that idea. I have heard alot of good things about NetBSD's driver support so maybe they will have some onboard eth support that I can learn from.

There is a HUGE lack of documentation on onboard ethernet devices and how to even access them.

I will keep searching though.
Back to the PCI bus.