From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 06:14:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3954237B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (slytherin.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE1543FAF for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h76DJ6Xq013067; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: (from hawk@localhost) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h76DJ5EN013066; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:19:05 -0400 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" To: David Gilbert Message-ID: <20030806131905.GE5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> References: <20030805194530.GC5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> <20030805154926.B88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: House of Hawkins cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet Subject: Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:14:26 -0000 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Guibert de Bruet writes: > Andre> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > Andre> Does this new toy have a 32-bit pci slot available? If so, pop > Andre> in a nic (temporarily), cvsup and/or grab the needed patches > Andre> and rebuild away! > > It has a mini-pci slot. You'd have a hard time getting an ethernet > card in there. Having just had a look at the patch, it's a little > large to be typing in by hand. > Here's the options I see for you: > 1) the D800 has a serial port (rare on today's laptops). Hook up a > modem or a null serial cable and network thusly to cvsup. > 2) the D800 has a pccard slot. Find someone with a wireless or > ethernet card. I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0. So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine. No dice; they depend on another changed function. So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a source tree updated this morning. Am I going to have to do anything else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation and reboot take care of this? thanks hawk