Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:06:41 -0800 From: bmah@acm.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> Cc: ashp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27087: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE does not recognize GigE NIC Message-ID: <200201190506.g0J56fb60438@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3C48E5C0.BDFAE09A@lbl.gov> References: <200201170303.g0H33S297380@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C48E5C0.BDFAE09A@lbl.gov>
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If memory serves me right, "Jin Guojun[ITG]" wrote: > Yes, it is still the problem in 4.4-RELEASE. The work around is to add > following lines into the /etc/rc.conf (for sk NIC): > > ------/etc/rc.conf > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Dec 21 12:05:49 2001 > # Created: Fri Dec 21 12:05:49 2001 > # Enable network daemons for user convenience. > # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > ifconfig sk0 # kldload /modules/if_sk.ko does not work > sleep 2 > ifconfig_sk0="inet xxx.yyy.zzz.hhh netmask 255.255.255.0 media 1000baseSX > mediaopt > -------end of /etc/rc.conf It's been awhile since I looked at this PR, but I remember thinking that the "real" problem was that you needed the sk (or ti) driver and it wasn't in GENERIC (or on the stripped-down kernel used on the boot floppies). I'm not sure why, but none of the GigE drivers are in GENERIC. A slightly cleaner way of loading the module you need is to put the lines: if_sk_load="YES" if_ti_load="YES" into /boot/loader.conf. This will cause the applicable module(s) to be loaded along with the kernel. This doesn't help you for first-time installs though. But one way to do this is to put the module you need on a floppy disk. sysinstall now has the ability to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (look on the Configure menu). This will let you do the installation; you can then manually edit /boot/loader.conf as described above. Caveat: I haven't tried this myself. Hope this helps... Bruce. PS. Hi, Jin! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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