[Tfug] freebsd nic help

[Predrag Punosevac]

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good luck!


On 9/26/07, Neil Short <neshort at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > --- christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > High everyone. I've got a FreeBSD question here.
> >
> > <grin>
> >
> > > I was going to configure NAT on my machine, which
> > > I had done before on a different machine, but for
> > > some reason none of the extra  nics are
> > recognized.
> > > Does anyone have any idea of how to troubleshoot
> > > this?
> >
> > What does your probe() look like (dmesg or equiv)?
> > Is the device listed *there*?  If so, just build
> > the right /dev entry (unless FBSD's device handling
> > has changed significantly in the years since I last
> > ran it... is devfs real, now?)
> >
> > > Here's ifconfig -a
> > >
> > > bge0:
> > > flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > > mtu 1500
> > >         options=1a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
> > >         inet6 fe80::250:2cff:fe09:8a4d%bge0
> > > prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> > >         inet 68.105.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffff00
> > > broadcast 68.105.140.255
> > >         ether 00:50:2c:09:8a:4d
> > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
> > > <full-duplex>)
> > >         status: active
> > > fwe0: flags=108802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > mtu
> > > 1500
> > >         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> > >         ether 02:50:2c:09:9d:16
> > >         ch 1 dma -1
> > > plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > > mtu 1500
> > > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
> > > 16384
> > >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> > >         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> > >         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> > >
> > > You can see that bge0 works. That's my connection
> > to
> > > the
> > > outside world, but my inside nic's which both use
> > > the
> > > realtek driver aren't listed, and on previous
> > > systems have
> > > been under /dev/rlx .
> > >
>
>
> Have you built a custom kernel? If so, your
> configuration file needs:
>            device miibus #which you already have
>            device rl
>
> or you can add a line to the file /boot/loader.conf:
>            if_rl_load="YES"
>
> You can check your drivers right now with (as root):
>
> # kldload if_rl
>
> if the driver is already loaded you'll get:
> kldload: can't load if_rl: File exists
>
> for further information, check
>    $  man rl
>
> it may also pay to check:
>    $  man -k realtek
>
> ======
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> Ecclesiastes 8:11
>
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