NIC 1 gigabit

[Sergey Babkin]

iwan at staff.usd.ac.id wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have trouble with my NIC.
> I'm using Server Mainboard Intel (I forgot the model), there is 2 NICs; the one
> is 100Mbps other is 1 gigabit. I use this for my web server with freeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE.
> NIC 1 gigabit is not detected and recognised neither by freeBSD the other is
> fine and working.
> What should I do ? Should I recompile kernel ? And How ?
> Sorry, my English is bad.

Intel is known to change the PCI IDs of the cards pretty often, so 
the older drivers won't recognise the newer compatible cards as such.
Get a newer version of FreeBSD that has the updated ID table
in the driver. 

-SB