Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0400 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800 Message-ID: <20030806163252.GF5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030806113636.P88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20030805194530.GC5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> <20030805154926.B88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net> <20030806131905.GE5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> <20030806113636.P88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an > > external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0. > > So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine. No dice; > > they depend on another changed function. > > So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is > > only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a > > source tree updated this morning. Am I going to have to do anything > > else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation > > and reboot take care of this? > If you've compiled the driver into the kernel, all you'll have to do is > configure the IP settings for the device. If you intend on using the > kernel loadable module, you'll have to kldload it before you configure > the network settings. All is now well, and I have my regular programs building. DHCP network configuration even worked flawlessly. I have a permanent IP for the thing, but this (should) let me plug into the sockets at our main library as well (and I assume it will give me less hassle with ppp, too!) thanks hawk > > Regards, > > > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \
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