From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 15:07:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5023916A41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:07:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F40913C447 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBJF7FhY087647; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:07:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id g8LY3Fw6KzHC; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:07:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBJF6oCw087638; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:06:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <47693385.8060803@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:06:45 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bin Cheng References: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A84A02@anakin.ironportsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A84A02@anakin.ironportsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 82566DM-2 support (was: no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:07:26 -0000 Bin Cheng wrote: > I installed freebsd 6.2 on my IBM desktop. Try to config network > interface. There are no Ethernet card shows. Only have plip0, sl0 and > ppp0 showing. The Onboard Ethernet interface card in my motherboard is > Intel(r) 82566DM-2 Gigabit network. Could you let me know what kinds of > problem is. Is FreeBSD support this card or not? Have you tried adding: if_em_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK, the card may be detected with the "em" driver, but it may be that em(4) didn't support this card in 6.2. I don't really know; it is/will be supported in 7.X. For an overview, read /usr/src/sys/dev/em/README. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell