Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:20:57 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC? Message-ID: <AD394181-B9E5-423A-98ED-0C2A9789725B@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200606211659.k5LGxvQV004033@asarian-host.net> References: <200606211659.k5LGxvQV004033@asarian-host.net>
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On Jun 21, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Mark wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark [mailto:admin@asarian-host.net] >> Sent: dinsdag 20 juni 2006 2:53 >> To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' >> Subject: RE: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel >> PWLA8391GT NIC? >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Bj=F6rn K=F6nig [mailto:bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de] >>> Sent: maandag 19 juni 2006 8:11 >>> To: Mark >>> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' >>> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel >>> PWLA8391GT NIC? >>> >>> >>>> Mark schrieb: >>>> A similar question as before: does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE >>>> support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC card? >>> >>> According to Google this card is also known as Intel >>> PRO/1000. It should work with the em(4) driver. > > Hmm, I tried it, but the card is not recognized. :( The kernel was =20 > compiled > (and installed) with: > > device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card > > Needless to say, I'm disappointed. :( Any way to solve this? > I am not a guru at this, but look at the pci ids etc for this in the =20 boot dmesg and then look at the source for this driver and see if =20 some pci ids or something need to be added. Again, I am not an =20 expert at this but did do something similar once for a raid =20 controller to backport it to an earlier version of FBSD some time ago =20= and did the same sort of thing on Solaris 10 to get the LSI SATA-4 =20 150 raid card to work with the amr driver. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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