From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 19:57:32 2005 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 EB9BF16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from stimpy.forestinformatics.com (cvo-cr1-200-239.peak.org [69.59.200.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422B443D4C for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Received: from rodan ([192.168.0.14]) by stimpy.forestinformatics.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id j88JvPMc069769 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com) Message-ID: <004201c5b4af$87ed9ce0$0a00a8c0@rodan> From: "Jeff D. Hamann" To: Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:57:18 -0700 Organization: Forest Informatics, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on stimpy.forestinformatics.com Subject: rebuilding kernel 6.0beta4 for amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Jeff D. Hamann" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:57:33 -0000 I've just put together a new amd64 machine in an ASUS Vintage-ae1 barebones system. After giving up on FreeBSD 5.4 when it gagged on my hard drive, I decided to try going all the way to 6.0beta4. Almost everything went without incident except for mounting usb sticks and the on-board network card isn't coming up. It seems to get detected, but not initialized. When I run dmesg, I get the following lines (I can't post the whole thing since I can't get files from the bsd box to my windows box -- no mcopy and I don't know how to mount the usb stick either): plip0: on ppbus0 and when I type ifonfig, I get: plip0: flags=<108851 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=blah,blah,blah.... I think my chipsets for the asus vintage-ae1 is/are: northbridge: SIS 760GX southbridge: SIS 965L and so doing a little research, I think the sis device driver might work (maybe?) and so I need to recompile the kernel to get the onboard nic to light up. So I've been hunting around to see if I can recompile the kernel to include the SIS ethernet driver and I'm having some trouble with the process of building a new kernel under 6.0-BETA4... >From re-reading my references, compiling a new kernel is accomplished with the following steps: 1) cd /sys/amd64/conf 2) cp KERNEL MYKERNEL 3) make the edits to MYKERNEL (adding the line "device sis" to the file) 4) cd /usr/src 5) make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL 6) make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL 7) reboot okay, so when I attempt to build a new kernel, I get the following: bobby# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop bobby# now what? --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com