From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 14:30:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62C737B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23069; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:30:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3C927607.2000006@owt.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:30:31 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curry Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Detection Problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Curry Taylor wrote: > I've used FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE for a few years now, and have been > using a D-LINK DFE-530TX (no +) successfully. FreeBSD has always detected > it as rl0, and it has worked perfectly as such. Now, I want to install a > second ethernet card, and a purchased a DFE-530TX+. FreeBSD does not > detect the card correctly, and instead says that it's an unknown card > (vendor 0x1186). Also, BIOS detects both cards properly. > > How can I get the kernel to find the card properly? I've tried > using UserConfig, but there are only 10 choices for network drivers, and > the one I have isn't listed. Besides, shouldn't it already be loaded with > from the prior card? I realize that the "+" and the "no +" cards run > officially on different drivers, but since my original works with the rl0, > I would think that both should work with the rl(4) driver. > > Any help? Thanks. You can not expect to add a really new card to an ancient release. You have the choice of upgrading to a release that recognizes that card's new chips or add the recognition changes to if_rl.c and if_rlreg.h to your system and setup a new kernel. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message