Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:19:44 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Tony Sim <y2s1982@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions on how to use the Head files Pyun YongHyeon has created for re driver Message-ID: <20080901041944.GB48568@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <5fb5cdcd0808312001k419cd735r55c37a15f5f76ab5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5fb5cdcd0808312001k419cd735r55c37a15f5f76ab5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:01:16PM +0900, Tony Sim wrote: > Hi. I've recently purchased a laptop that, by the looks of windows drivers > that came with it, was made by Realtek. I THINK it might be 8168c, but > regardless, freebsd 7-rel failed to detect it. > Have you tried to run it on latest 7-stable or CURRENT? I guess re(4) on 7-stable may recognize your controller. If not please let me know. > I've tried to use ndisgen to get a .ko module, but it only > half-worked; now freebsd detects the card as a realtek 8168/8111 and can be > found on ifconfig, but it's status is not UP nor DOWN. When I tried to > change the status to UP, the entire system crashed. > > I've also tried downloading the driver from realtek homepage, but it won't > compile (and does not have a folder with .ko file, as the Readme.txt claims) > > A google search got me to an archived post: > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2008-06/msg00186.html > > and from the looks of it, he has created more patches since the posting: > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/ > Now re(4) has all the changes in the directory above so you don't need to manually patch them if you run 7-stable/CURRENT. > except me being a newbie, I can't figure out what to do with this file. The > responses from the testers were quite favorable, so I'm very excited about > the find. Can someone help me figure out what i'm supposed to do here? I'm > guessing these are patches, but patches to which files? and how do i apply > these? > > thank you very much for reading so far. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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