From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 18:59:44 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 1A0EC16A419 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:59:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw5.njit.edu (mail.njit.edu [128.235.251.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B5E13C4E7 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from access.smsd.tv (dhcp113-161.njit.edu [128.235.113.161]) by mail-gw5.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBJIEJCQ025456; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:14:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47695F7D.1040603@wallnet.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:14:21 -0500 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071127) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <441w9ir2p5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <441w9ir2p5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Nomad Subject: Re: Updating/patching network card driver? 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 18:59:44 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Nomad writes: > > >> I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't >> detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for >> this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would >> prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch but found an updated >> driver. In updating the driver, is it sufficient to replace the >> contents of /usr/src/sys/dev/bge with the updated version and then >> rebuild the kernel? >> > > It might be; trying it may be the easiest way to find out. > If you're going to use unsupported upgrades, though, there isn't much > reason to stick to release codebase. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > If you have the windows .inf, .sys and (maybe) .cat driver files for that network card, you might want to look into ndisgen(8) I haven't used it on wired network interfaces, but it works very well on the NetGear and Linksys wireless cards that have no FreeBSD drivers under 6.2. Tim