From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 04:19:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E0A16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 04:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79A6843D31 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 04:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas.kohn@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 23263 invoked by uid 65534); 28 May 2004 11:19:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [212.204.44.203]) (212.204.44.203) by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 28 May 2004 13:19:06 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2431876 From: Andreas Kohn To: santanu@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <1085739858.29244.12.camel@baba.littlehome.co.uk> References: <40A568A6.7030100@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040515073213.O42901@ns> <40A5D792.2010809@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040515143606.Q53069@ns> <1084792888.26444.12.camel@pcct.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040517113138.GA40942@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040517133533.F69233@ns> <1084794245.26444.17.camel@pcct.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040517135254.P69288@ns> <1085739685.29244.10.camel@baba.littlehome.co.uk> <1085739858.29244.12.camel@baba.littlehome.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3hmNZqJaGVTQC+vjdZQ7" Message-Id: <1085743145.7278.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:19:05 +0200 cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: network on AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:19:53 -0000 --=-3hmNZqJaGVTQC+vjdZQ7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 12:24, Santanu Das wrote: > I'm using a ethernet card from Digital called as "Fast EtherWorks PCI > 10/100" (AK-QKJJB-CA). How can I know about the actual module is being > used for this card.=20 Simply start ifconfig, and search for your ethernet connection ... vr0: flags=3D8802 mtu 1500 ... vr0 is the device name, vr(4) would be the driver. (This is on i386, Alpha looks the same) Another way would be to look through your dmesg for the probe message of your NIC. > During installation FreeBSD (5.1) auto-detects the > card so I didn't have to worry about. In RedHat (i386), normally there > is file called as '/etc/modules.conf' to know that. What is the alpha > equivalent in FreeBSD? You can define which modules should be loaded on system boot in /boot/loader.conf (loader.conf(5)). HTH, Andreas --=-3hmNZqJaGVTQC+vjdZQ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAtyApYucd7Ow1ygwRArpIAKCSiEMjEy0a159TEQuH52tl4Zl1PACdHHEI bk5ofBdRGrLBhTfjbKZryME= =XZx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3hmNZqJaGVTQC+vjdZQ7--