1 Apr 2002 02:50
Re: kern/27087: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE does not recognize GigE NIC
Jin Guojun[ITG] <j_guojun <at> lbl.gov>
2002-04-01 00:50:04 GMT
2002-04-01 00:50:04 GMT
The following reply was made to PR kern/27087; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <j_guojun <at> lbl.gov> To: murray <at> FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs <at> FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27087: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE does not recognize GigE NIC Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:20:34 -0800 murray <at> FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE does not recognize GigE NIC > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed > State-Changed-By: murray > State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 27 03:50:58 PST 2002 > State-Changed-Why: > There was no space on the kernel floppy for those drivers with 4.3 release. > > With FreeBSD 4.5, we added support for kernel modules to be placed on > the mfsroot.flp and be loaded by sysinstall(8). Both the if_ti and > if_sk modules are included on the mfsroot.flp for 4.5, so you should > be able to install without a problem. Please let us know if this is > still an issue. Sorry for the trouble with 4.3. No trouble. We just need to make FreeBSD more robust. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27087 Acturally, the problem has not been fixed yet. I just retried 4.5-RELEASE, and tested 4.5-20020317-STABLE and 4.5-20020329-STABLE, neither one of them(Continue reading)
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