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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:44:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
Subject:   Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?
Message-ID:  <20070113124138.N57194@prime.gushi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070113153046.GA25950@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <20070103024752.J35175@prime.gushi.org> <20070103123155.V52719@prime.gushi.org> <200701031418.13125.lists@jnielsen.net> <200701031423.17415.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070103153916.S52719@prime.gushi.org> <20070110103252.GA49447@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20070111120113.A57194@prime.gushi.org> <20070113153046.GA25950@owl.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:01:48PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>> yOn Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Apologies for top-posting.
>>>>
>>>> I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on
>>>> "namespace collision".  I.e. I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that
>>>> supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not
>>>> support it is already in the generic kernel.  Changing the name of the
>>>> loadable doesn't help, either.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like I might have to make my own release, and my own ISO, using
>>>> the driver source from the 3ware site.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an easier way of doing this?
>>>
>>> Might some of the following information from 3ware be of help?
>>>
>>> http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15003
>>
>> This details exactly what I need to do.  However, the drivers that SHOULD
>> be attached to the article are NOT.
>
> No, they were not. The people at 3ware seem to have noticed that mistake
> however and now the attachments seem to actually be attached to that
> article.

Yes,

I also need to state for the record that their support people are 
incredibly knowledgeable and responsive.

I'm up and running now (thought I wasn't for a bit because the card takes 
a few MINUTES to probe during boot).

What is the likelyness (read that as: who would I have to ask) of getting 
the driver source added to 6.2-R, or to CURRENT?  While this has been an 
overall good experience for me, it would be decidedly nice if I could have 
just booted from the CD and run with it.

-Dan

--

"No mowore webooting!!!"

-Paul, 10-16-99, 10 PM

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