Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:27:23 -0400 From: kalin m <kalin@el.net> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd forgets root password Message-ID: <4AE38D5B.3080903@el.net> In-Reply-To: <4AE336F3.9040107@daleco.biz> References: <4AE250BF.8010902@el.net> <6201873e0910231846j4386baa9g3bd3eab21fed1727@mail.gmail.com> <4AE26337.8030001@el.net> <20091024054227.e3a4a3bb.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AE27939.20303@el.net> <4AE336F3.9040107@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey wrote: > kalin m wrote: >> """ >> does anybody here know if freebsd has a driver for Marvell 88E8057 >> nic chip? >> >> according to the kernel list of drivers (7.2) marvell chips are >> driven by the msk driver. but it doesn't show up in pciconf, dmesg or >> sysinstall.... >> strangely enough 88E8057 is not in the list in man msk. although >> 88E8056 and 88E8058 are. is this just bad luck?! >> """ > > No, as I mentioned earlier, it appears the driver author didn't have > or wasn't aware of this chipset. It's quite possible, based on the > cursory glance I gave to the headers of the file, that it didn't exist > at the time it was written. There are obviously some issues with > licensing or disclosure or what-not. > > See /usr/src/dev/msk/if_msk.c, down about line 210-220 where > these are defined. You can, I think, very carefully, attempt > to add this device to that file and rebuild your kernel, I think, > and then see if it works. I'm thinking OOTOMH the trick would be getting > the right DEVICEID string in there. > > Barring that, you might speak very sweetly to the author of the driver, > perhaps offering $BEVERAGE and detailed information about the chip, and > see if he/she would attempt to conjure up the right code to make it work. thanks kevin... i did get an email from (i believe ) the author of the driver. so i'll be hopefully trying his patch on monday. and i have to get some files from HEAD. but it was very nice that he contacted me. i had to look up OOTOMH thought... thanks... > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey
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