From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 19:14:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A687C1065677 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:14:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B458FC13 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:14:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 499391CC0BE; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:14:21 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: dick thompson Message-ID: <20080818191421.GA6428@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <48A9B8F1.2080307@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A9B8F1.2080307@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question of FreeBSD 7.0 support of my ethernet adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:14:31 -0000 On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:21PM -0400, dick thompson wrote: > My computer came with the Attansic L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter. With > Linux I need distros using a kernel later than 2.6.22.1. Does FreeBSD > 7.0 support this ethernet adapter or has a work around come out that > will work with it? I know that the older BSD releases did not support > it but don't know if the new one does or not. This adapter is the same > as the Atheros L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter and appears to be widely > used on the lower level Intel Core 2 Duo computers (mine is the E4400 > chipset). I would like to use the FreeBSD but I am retired and do not > want to have to do a lot of changing of what came with this computer for > economic reasons. There is a new driver for FreeBSD, specifically for that adapter, called age(4). It was added to FreeBSD 3-4 months ago. It should be available via FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (not RELEASE), so you should download a 7.0-STABLE snapshot image and install that: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200807/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |