Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:14:21 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question of FreeBSD 7.0 support of my ethernet adapter Message-ID: <20080818191421.GA6428@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <48A9B8F1.2080307@earthlink.net> References: <48A9B8F1.2080307@earthlink.net>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:21PM -0400, dick thompson wrote: > My computer came with the Attansic L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter. With > Linux I need distros using a kernel later than 2.6.22.1. Does FreeBSD > 7.0 support this ethernet adapter or has a work around come out that > will work with it? I know that the older BSD releases did not support > it but don't know if the new one does or not. This adapter is the same > as the Atheros L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter and appears to be widely > used on the lower level Intel Core 2 Duo computers (mine is the E4400 > chipset). I would like to use the FreeBSD but I am retired and do not > want to have to do a lot of changing of what came with this computer for > economic reasons. There is a new driver for FreeBSD, specifically for that adapter, called age(4). It was added to FreeBSD 3-4 months ago. It should be available via FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (not RELEASE), so you should download a 7.0-STABLE snapshot image and install that: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200807/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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