Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:17:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Patrick Whalen <patrickwhalen@mac.com> Cc: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC Message-ID: <20020828071700.GA15742@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <2328C7A2-BA41-11D6-857D-003065D743AE@mac.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208280003110.21168-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> <2328C7A2-BA41-11D6-857D-003065D743AE@mac.com>
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Patrick Whalen wrote: > The NIC that I have is actually new. I bought it specifically because > it was listed in the Hardware Notes. Even the manufacturer's datasheet (http://www.efficient.com/pdf/products/1012_1020.pdf) claims that FreeBSD is supported. Unfortunately it doesn't go as far as saying what chipset is used on the card. > When I install, or boot -c, I get a list of 6 drivers from which to > choose. None of them stand out as the correct one. At first, it shows 7 > conflicts. If I get rid of all of them, and then later on go into the > Networking configuration, the card shows up as an unidentified device, > or something to that effect. If I choose an arbitrary driver, either > nothing will show up under Networking, or I will get something like > faith0. The boot time configuration is only for old ISA/EISA cards that cannot identify themselves to the OS. PCI cards like yours should be automatically detected by the OS and the correct driver selected. > Should I need to choose a driver, or is it automatic? Is there > something else that I'm missing? Is there anything specific which I > should look for when I type 'ifconfig'? Should be automatic. Can you run 'pciconf -l' (as root) and show the list the output? That will show the PCI ID numbers of all of the components on your system and what device (and hence driver) they correspond to. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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