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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:23:49 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
To:        iwan@staff.usd.ac.id
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIC 1 gigabit
Message-ID:  <4244AB95.D08C4701@verizon.net>
References:  <1111538842.4240bc9aa0e35@webmail.usd.ac.id>

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iwan@staff.usd.ac.id wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have trouble with my NIC.
> I'm using Server Mainboard Intel (I forgot the model), there is 2 NICs; the one
> is 100Mbps other is 1 gigabit. I use this for my web server with freeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE.
> NIC 1 gigabit is not detected and recognised neither by freeBSD the other is
> fine and working.
> What should I do ? Should I recompile kernel ? And How ?
> Sorry, my English is bad.

Intel is known to change the PCI IDs of the cards pretty often, so 
the older drivers won't recognise the newer compatible cards as such.
Get a newer version of FreeBSD that has the updated ID table
in the driver. 

-SB



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