Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:05:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook?? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003291245040.85919@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4BB0F123.2060504@netscape.net> References: <4BAFA590.6070401@netscape.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003281602160.81198@wonkity.com> <4BB02A9D.3080904@netscape.net> <4BB0F123.2060504@netscape.net>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: > On 03/29/2010 07:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: >> Thanks for the response Warren!! >> >>> Does the card show up in ifconfig? >> >> No. >> >>> If not, do a 'pciconf -lv' to find out which particular hardware you have. >> >> pciconf -lv says >> >> Vendor: Marvell Semiconductor (Was Galileo Technology LTD) >> Class: Network >> Subclass: Ethernet [please don't top-post, it makes responding more work] What is needed is the line just before the Vendor, with the card and chip IDs. Then compare it against the list of cards the FreeBSD msk driver supports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msk&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html > Well.... I managed to go to Marvell and get the FreeBSD 7.0 x64 driver and > use my USB key to get the driver into the machine: Wait, the (binary|proprietary?) driver for FreeBSD 7.0 is almost certainly not going to work on FreeBSD 8.0. > I then installed it using the instructions provided in the README.txt file > and now I can't even boot BSD any more :-( > > I get total kernel panic with a complete system lockup. > > I'm not sure if I will be able to recover from this or if I will need a total > re-install but so far BSD seems completely hosed on my machine :-( You may be able to unload that kernel module before booting. If it's a kernel module; don't know. The one Marvell card I have in a notebook is supported by the open FreeBSD msk driver thanks to Pyun YongHyeon. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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