Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:06:45 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Bin Cheng <bicheng@ironport.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 82566DM-2 support (was: no subject) Message-ID: <47693385.8060803@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A84A02@anakin.ironportsystems.com> References: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A84A02@anakin.ironportsystems.com>
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Bin Cheng wrote: > I installed freebsd 6.2 on my IBM desktop. Try to config network > interface. There are no Ethernet card shows. Only have plip0, sl0 and > ppp0 showing. The Onboard Ethernet interface card in my motherboard is > Intel(r) 82566DM-2 Gigabit network. Could you let me know what kinds of > problem is. Is FreeBSD support this card or not? Have you tried adding: if_em_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK, the card may be detected with the "em" driver, but it may be that em(4) didn't support this card in 6.2. I don't really know; it is/will be supported in 7.X. For an overview, read /usr/src/sys/dev/em/README. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell
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