Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:14:21 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Nomad <atxnomad@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Updating/patching network card driver? Message-ID: <47695F7D.1040603@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <441w9ir2p5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <aab749db0712181014gfe2e1bxa6883c9a86c9b886@mail.gmail.com> <441w9ir2p5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Nomad <atxnomad@gmail.com> 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
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