From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 12:49:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E84F16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4E343D39 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2767 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2004 19:47:04 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 7 Apr 2004 19:47:04 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i37JjkNF013535; Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:46:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:15:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <4072AF32.9060506@npd.ufsc.br> <40736DD9.2090007@ec.rr.com> <4073FB4D.3060901@npd.ufsc.br> In-Reply-To: <4073FB4D.3060901@npd.ufsc.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404071315.17154.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: jason cc: Augusto Castelan Carlson Subject: Re: NICs not reconized - FreeBSD 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:49:09 -0000 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 08:59 am, Augusto Castelan Carlson wrote: > jason wrote: > >> What are the correct steps to install this realtek driver correctely? > >> And the broadcom 5788, can I make it work on FreeBSD 4.9? > > > > Did the default driver in bsd not work? I would not compile it in until > > I found one that worked. Just load and unload modules, it makes life > > easy. You could try to tweak the default driver to recgonize your card > > and it may just work. Since you downloaded the driver you could try > > looking at the differences between the web and system drivers with diff, > > it may be 95% the same. > > I suppose that there is no default driver for these NICs, as they are > not reconized during the system install. I know that they work on > FreeBSD 5.2.1, but the application that I'm intend to use only works on > version 4.x. > About loading and unload modules, I have to do that using > /boot/loader.conf or there is a command line to do it? > > It's not dangerous to tweak the code? Can I damage the NIC? Note that you can run 4.x binaries on a 5.x system so long as you install the compat4x distribution. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org