From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 06:02:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57D716A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.npd.ufsc.br (mail.npd.ufsc.br [150.162.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCC343D3F for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 06:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carlson@npd.ufsc.br) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.npd.ufsc.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A7E93A0; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:59 -0300 (EST) Received: from npd.ufsc.br (balantidium.interop.ufsc.br [150.162.248.5]) by mail.npd.ufsc.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C449398; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:58 -0300 (EST) Message-ID: <4073FB4D.3060901@npd.ufsc.br> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:59:57 -0300 From: Augusto Castelan Carlson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason References: <4072AF32.9060506@npd.ufsc.br> <40736DD9.2090007@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <40736DD9.2090007@ec.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NICs not reconized - FreeBSD 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:02:02 -0000 jason wrote: >> What are the correct steps to install this realtek driver correctely? >> And the broadcom 5788, can I make it work on FreeBSD 4.9? >> >> > Did the default driver in bsd not work? I would not compile it in until > I found one that worked. Just load and unload modules, it makes life > easy. You could try to tweak the default driver to recgonize your card > and it may just work. Since you downloaded the driver you could try > looking at the differences between the web and system drivers with diff, > it may be 95% the same. I suppose that there is no default driver for these NICs, as they are not reconized during the system install. I know that they work on FreeBSD 5.2.1, but the application that I'm intend to use only works on version 4.x. About loading and unload modules, I have to do that using /boot/loader.conf or there is a command line to do it? It's not dangerous to tweak the code? Can I damage the NIC? Thanks, Augusto