Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:26:57 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware not recognized Message-ID: <18211.29921.62146.963105@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071027163109.GA95045@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <18211.26045.874839.108550@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20071027163109.GA95045@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson writes: > > Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow > > and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. > > However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: > > If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. > > Do you have 'device em' in you kernel config ? If you don't you > will of course have to load if_em as a module via loader.conf. Custom kernel, no "device em", -CURRENT. However, it was my understanding anything probed at boot whose PCI id was known would automatically have the appropriate driver loaded. Am I misinformed? Robert Huff
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