Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 07:58:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: bill@linuxcare.com Cc: FBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network trickles ...... cont'd Message-ID: <20001011075828.T87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39E3333C.793B1317@wiliweld.com>; from Bill@wiliweld.com on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:18:20AM -0700 References: <39E3333C.793B1317@wiliweld.com>
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On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 8:18:20 -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello, > Just got the FreeBSD-3.4 installed here at work and it rocks. The Intel > eepro100 driver translates the name of the NIC to 'fxp0' so I can see I > need some guidance as to how to determine the proper identity for the > (tulip driver) Netgear FX-310_TX card. This must be a driver issue. Unlike Linux, each BSD Ethernet driver has its own name. You don't need to look for it; the drivers probe the hardware in turn, and each finds its own. In case of doubt, check dmesg, but in general ifconfig -a will show you what the system found. > If I swap cards and need to re-assign a new module for the NIC > can it be a 'one liner' like in the /etc/conf.modules file in Linux? Better yet, you don't need to do anything. It will be loaded automatically when you reference it. But if you're loading the modules, you will need to specify the name of the driver; that's why most people compile all drivers into the kernel (that's what GENERIC does, too). > But I guess before that I'd need to look at the available network > card modules on my system and some definitions file. I would have > never guessed that 'fxp0' was the module name for the Intel > EEpro100, in Linux the module is called 'eepro100'. Why be so obvious? :-) In fact, the names of the drivers are lost in the mists of time. You'll find a correlation between boards and driver names in the file HARDWARE.TXT on the installation CD-ROM; there's also a copy on page 24 of "The Complete FreeBSD", Third Edition (page 21 in the Second Edition), but it's out of date. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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