From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 17:20:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DEE16A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FA043D49 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:20:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1Ft6Nu-00071S-EO; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:20:58 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200606211659.k5LGxvQV004033@asarian-host.net> References: <200606211659.k5LGxvQV004033@asarian-host.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:20:57 -0600 To: Mark X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:20:59 -0000 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