Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:19:05 +0200 From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> To: santanu@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: network on AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 Message-ID: <1085743145.7278.4.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> In-Reply-To: <1085739858.29244.12.camel@baba.littlehome.co.uk> References: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0405141716170.22860-100000@polonius.bigw.org> <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>
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--=-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<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 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--
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