Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:48:02 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Franck Royer <francklarchange@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Attansic L1e Gigabit Ethernet driver support Message-ID: <20090607044802.GB51551@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <4A2A878D.30203@free.fr> References: <4A2A878D.30203@free.fr>
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On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Franck Royer wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Acer Aspire 6930 and I'm using the freebsd 8.0-CURRENT branch > (the 2009-05) on amd64. > > As said in the topic, I have a network card Attansic L1e Gigabit > Ethernet which is not recognize by the GENERIC kernel and current > age/ale drivers. > That's strange. Would you show me the output of "pciconf -lcv"? It's possible that you have third generation ethernet controller, AR8131/AR8132 from Atheros. I'm working on supporting these controllers and you can get the latest driver for AR8131/AR8132 from the following URL. http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alc.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alcreg.h http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alcvar.h http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/Makefile > I'd like to know what is the current solution to make it works because I > saw different solutions. I'll probably try this one : > http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2244 (patching the ale driver, Ignore the thread. You don't need any patches to make ale(4) run on RELENG_7/CURRENT. > but for now I'm waiting for the end of the download of my freebsd dvd > cause of course I need the kernel sources to compile it). > > I can give my dmesg messages but it's not obvious (cause I doing a zfs > only installation, it is why I took the current, and my other installed > system is a ubuntu without zfs support :/). > > Cheers, > > Franck
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