Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:41:56 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re driver in 5.3? Message-ID: <17772.15524.657231.990231@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <a174d0600611272354s6399e52avd527625ee7f7b1e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <a174d0600611272354s6399e52avd527625ee7f7b1e0@mail.gmail.com>
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Scott Gasch writes: > I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect > the device. Is this likely due to driver code differences or > something else in the 6.x kernels? Something "in the kernel". Once upon a time, the Linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (version 2) used a different chip. This changed with no warning (version 3) and the new combination of class+card+chip returned by the boot probe didn't map to anything. Driver modules weren't automatically loaded, and in-kernel drivers didn't recognize the card. This was first noticed in early October, 2005 (check the archives of current@) and - I believe - corrected for 6.1 but not for 6.0. Robert Huff
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