From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 17:51:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF36716A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.oisca.org (mail.oisca.org [164.46.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED6843D5C for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:51:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r_ikeda@oisca.org) Received: from IBMR40e (77.45.44.61.ap.yournet.ne.jp [61.44.45.77]) i071p1E25739 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:51:01 +0900 Message-ID: <001f01c3d4c0$6f790f80$2301a8c0@IBMR40e> From: "Rommel B. Ikeda" To: Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:49:05 +0900 Organization: OISCA-International MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: device bfe unknown - during compilation of new kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Rommel B. Ikeda" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:51:06 -0000 Hi, I have an IBM R40e Thinkpad with a dual boot of Windows XP and FreeBSD 5.2... The other day, I installed FreeBSD on the 2nd Partition of my Hard Disk and I found out that the "device bfe" together with "device mii" supports my Internal NIC which is Broadcom NeXtreme Fast Ethernet...I was so happy because I thought I could never make use of my Internal NIC in FreeBSD...and during the boot process it should that it detected it...I decided that I would just let it be for a while and configure it when I get home...But after much thinking....I decided to make my FreeBSD Partition a little bigger...so I installed it again...this time I was not connected to our LAN...and my Internal NIC was not detected...but since I knew it was detected before...and I was to compile my kernel anyway... When I compiled my new kernel...I included the "device bfe" because it was not included with the GENERIC kernel...when I executed the make buildkernel command it complained that "device bfe is unknown"...What am I missing here?...the only thing that I did before compilation was I totally disabled acpi in my /boot/device.hints...is there a connection here? What should I do to make system recognize "device bfe" during compilation...? Thanks in advance for any advice...or help... Rommel Ikeda