NICs not reconized - FreeBSD 4.9

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 08:59 am, Augusto Castelan Carlson wrote:
> jason wrote:
> >> What are the correct steps to install this realtek driver correctely?
> >> And the broadcom 5788, can I make it work on FreeBSD 4.9?
> >
> > Did the default driver in bsd not work?  I would not compile it in until
> > I found one that worked.  Just load and unload modules, it makes life
> > easy.  You could try to tweak the default driver to recgonize your card
> > and it may just work.  Since you downloaded the driver you could try
> > looking at the differences between the web and system drivers with diff,
> > it may be 95% the same.
>
> I suppose that there is no default driver for these NICs, as they are
> not reconized during the system install.  I know that they work on
> FreeBSD 5.2.1, but the application that I'm intend to use only works on
> version 4.x.
> About loading and unload modules, I have to do that using
> /boot/loader.conf or there is a command line to do it?
>
> It's not dangerous to tweak the code? Can I damage the NIC?

Note that you can run 4.x binaries on a 5.x system so long as you install the 
compat4x distribution.

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