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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:18:08 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        Lila <liladude@aruba.it>
Subject:   Re: Neteasy DRP-32TXD ethernet problems on FreeBSD 6.0
Message-ID:  <200603140818.09838.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4416A49A.6070206@aruba.it>
References:  <44140E09.3000203@aruba.it> <20060313.134509.25161363.imp@bsdimp.com> <4416A49A.6070206@aruba.it>

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On Tuesday 14 March 2006 06:10 am, Lila wrote:
> Thanks for your answer.
> I tried to kldload some if_ drivers, but all of them already exist,
> because I am using the GENERIC kernel where all of them are already
> setted. I was waiting to find the good one before actually recompiling
> kernel.
> I thought good one should be if_de, since my card is setted under the
> tulip driver on linux... Maybe I just need to find a way to tell kernel
> what driver my card need... but I don't know where I should start.
> I wonder if having this card stated as D-Link insted of NetEasy in
> pci_vendors list can be the problem. If I could find a way to tell
> kernel they are the same thing I may be able to solve this problem.
> Any idea?

dc(4) is a better candidate for most tulip cards than de(4).  de(4)
only supports rather ancient tulip cards.  dc(4) supports most of
the non-ancient cards.

Try the patch at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/drp-32txd.patch

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