Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:37:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: bill@linuxcare.com, FBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network trickles ...... cont'd Message-ID: <20001010183724.A17719@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20001011075828.T87663@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from "Greg Lehey" on Wed Oct 11 07:58:28 GMT 2000 References: <39E3333C.793B1317@wiliweld.com> <20001011075828.T87663@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 11), Greg Lehey said: > > 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 Edition), but it's out of date. There's actually a saner reason for most of the driver names; it's based on the chipset on the card. Lots of cheap cards might use the same chipset (and driver), so using the model name/number is no good. See how many different cards the "dc" (DEC clone) or "rl" (RealTek chipset) drivers support, for example. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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