Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:52:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: denis.fournier@crc.ca (Denis Fournier) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Driver question Message-ID: <200211221452.gAMEqVr00069@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200211221359.gAMDxxaE010206@mercury.dgim.crc.ca> from "Denis Fournier" at Nov 22, 2002 09:00:14 AM
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> > 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 any reason you need to run older versions of FreeBSD? Generally, the way to get the more advanced drivers is to move to the more recent OS version. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE is the latest release version and there are '-STABLE' versions and development versions beyond that. If you really must have the older version AND the driver, you would have to look in a more recent version and find the driver and then try to port it back to the version you want. It might work if it doesn't depend on other OS additions that are only available in the later OS versions. But, the work would be up to you to do. ////jerry > > Thank you > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Denis Fournier Communications Research Centre Canada > Tel:(613) 990-8782 3701 Carling Avenue, > Fax:(613) 998-9648 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > Email: denis.fournier@crc.ca K2H 8S2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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