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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:44:05 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Maxim Mazurok <maxim@km.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: le(4) driver
Message-ID:  <20031031134404.GL4100@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20031031133858.GQ25319@km.ua>
References:  <20031030091522.GB25319@km.ua> <20031031130840.GH4100@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031031132647.GM25319@km.ua> <20031031133135.GI4100@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031031133858.GQ25319@km.ua>

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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Maxim Mazurok wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:31:36PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >> >> le(4) driver are ported to FreeBSD-alpha in 5.1-RELEASE or 5-CURRENT?
> >> >
> >> >I don't think that many have interest to take care about old isa cards
> >> >that can be replaced by modern and cheap pci cards.
> >> >It's possible that they just work - either since ages or by machine
> >> >independend changes, but I'm almost shure that noone realy tested on
> >> >alpha.
> >> >Just try and tell us what happens.
> >> 
> >> hmmm.
> >> i vave two old alpha width one de(4) card and two le(4) card.
> >> i can testing le(4) driver, but i don't known way :)
> >> if your can say to me, what i need to do - i try it.
> >
> >Add the driver to your kernel in the same way as you would on an i386
> >system and tell us where it fails or if it works.
> 
> if i add to kernel next line:
> 
> device		le
> 
> config say to me:
> root@ccc:/sys/alpha/conf#config ALEPH
> config: Error: device "le" is unknown
> config: 1 errors
> 
> i try to copy /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/if_le.c to /usr/src/sys/alpha/isa
> config terminated width same result.

Ah - OK it's really tagged i386 only - I can't say if this is for good
reason or just tradition.

There are also lines in i386/conf directory that you need to copy.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
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