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.
Try upgrading to FreeBSD-CURRENT. It supports your NIC. The device driver is called age(4). See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=age&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current&format=html Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
