On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Michael Gass <mg...@unix.csbsju.edu>wrote:
> I'm running 7.2-stable and I replaced an old ISA NIC with > a D-Link DFE-530TX+ card. According to the manual, the > correct driver for this card is rl driver. The kernel > insists on using the vr driver which is for the DFE-530TX. > >From what I can tell, the two cards have different chipsets > and so the drivers are not compatable. > > I can configure the vr driver, but the card does not work > with it - I cannot establish a connection even with ping. > > Is there a way for me to force the kernel to use the rl > driver? I am using a generic kernel, so all the needed > drivers are built-in. > "Simplest" method would be to compile a custom kernel with the rl driver and without the vr driver. Or to build a kernel without any networking drivers, so that they are all built as modules, and then use /boot/loader.conf to load just the if_rl module. One could probably also write a hints line in /boot/loader.conf to tell the vr driver to ignore that specific PCI slot or whatnot, although I've never actually done that. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
