From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 22 12:10:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD31337B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:10:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [209.63.227.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307D043E91 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:10:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18FK8J-0004AQ-00; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:10:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3DDE8F38.81275A2D@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:10:32 -0800 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Fournier Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to add new driver References: <200211221431.gAMEVCaE018841@mercury.dgim.crc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Denis Fournier wrote: > > I hope I sent this question to the good posting. I work in a research > environnement and one of my project was to install different kinds of OS's > for testing. I am using emulators, so I don't need hundred of computers in > the lab. For now I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.0 and up in a producted > called VMWare, and it is working fine. > My question is: I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.X but I can't get the network > up because the if_lnc_p.c driver for pci amd network cards is not > supported. But was supported starting version 2.2.0. I would like to know > if somebody can tell me how to integrate a new driver in a old version of > FreeBSD or tell me of a web site that can help me. I would really > appreciate anybody's help. Is there some reason you can't just use a version of FreeBSD created in this century? 4.7 might be a good starting point. Nobody has done maintenance work on 2.1.X in many years. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message