From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 29 10: 8: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8AD37B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8BD43E6E; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9TI86AG030244; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: Ng Wee Yong Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: device fxp cannot detect Intel On-Board LAN In-Reply-To: <006301c27f02$4d68c850$1300000a@NgWYNB> Message-ID: <20021029100539.Q30136-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ng Wee Yong wrote: > Hi all, > > I just install the FreeBSD 4.6.2 - STABLE version. My motherboard is a MSI > 845GE Max-L, 1.8Ghz Pentium 4, On-board LAN is Intel 82562. > > FreeBSD just work fine accept it cannot detect my On-Board Intel LAN. I > build and install a custom KERNEL with "device fxp" & "device miibus" set. > The new kernel was "make" & "make install" successfully. But it just cannot > detect my network card. The "dmesg" doesn't even show any "fxp" output. > > Did I miss out any step? I read somewhere in the mailing list that you can > do some setting in the file "/boot/loader.conf" file, is it? You shouldn't have had to take those steps; I did a 4.7 install yesterday and the onboard NIC was automagically discovered and the fxp driver installed. I suspect that your particular NIC isn't supported by the fxp driver. What does the man fxp page have to say? KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message