Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:10:32 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Denis Fournier <denis.fournier@crc.ca> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to add new driver Message-ID: <3DDE8F38.81275A2D@softweyr.com> References: <200211221431.gAMEVCaE018841@mercury.dgim.crc.ca>
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Denis Fournier wrote:
>
> I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research
> environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's
> for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in
> the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted
> called VMWare, and it is working fine.
> My question is: I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.X but I can't get the network
> up because the if_lnc_p.c driver for pci amd network cards is not
> supported. But was supported starting version 2.2.0. I would like to know
> if somebody can tell me how to integrate a new driver in a old version of
> FreeBSD or tell me of a web site that can help me. I would really
> appreciate anybody's help.
Is there some reason you can't just use a version of FreeBSD created in
this century? 4.7 might be a good starting point. Nobody has done
maintenance work on 2.1.X in many years.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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