Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:33:08 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 82567LM on a Dell Latitude E6500 Message-ID: <48D17794.8010001@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <48CE04A4.8030707@eskk.nu> References: <48CE04A4.8030707@eskk.nu>
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Leslie Jensen wrote: > I've just got myself a new laptop. The ethernet card is the above. I > found a readme file on how to install the driver, and there's also > instructions on where to download this driver. When browsing to Intels > download center and finding the right driver one is directed to the > FreeBSD homepage! I'm a bit puzzled here because it's not obvious to > me where to find the driver. Will someone shed the light for me, Please? > > I've installed FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 and it does not identify the NIC > proberly. > > Thanks > /Leslie > Can you try a prerelease of 7.1, it has the igb driver which I suspect will support that nic: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ Also would you mind posting the output of pciconf -lv which we could use to be more sure which driver you need? I would personally be interested in that output plus the dmesg output because I plan to buy the same model laptop and I think you are the first person to be found on the web running FreeBSD on it :) Thanks.
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