le(4) driver

Maxim Mazurok maxim at km.ua
Fri Oct 31 05:54:02 PST 2003


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Maxim Mazurok wrote:

>>> >> >> le(4) driver are ported to FreeBSD-alpha in 5.1-RELEASE or 5-CURRENT?
>>> >> >
>>> >> >I don't think that many have interest to take care about old isa cards
>>> >> >that can be replaced by modern and cheap pci cards.
>>> >> >It's possible that they just work - either since ages or by machine
>>> >> >independend changes, but I'm almost shure that noone realy tested on
>>> >> >alpha.
>>> >> >Just try and tell us what happens.
>>> >> 
>>> >> hmmm.
>>> >> i vave two old alpha width one de(4) card and two le(4) card.
>>> >> i can testing le(4) driver, but i don't known way :)
>>> >> if your can say to me, what i need to do - i try it.
>>> >
>>> >Add the driver to your kernel in the same way as you would on an i386
>>> >system and tell us where it fails or if it works.
>>> 
>>> if i add to kernel next line:
>>> 
>>> device		le
>>> 
>>> config say to me:
>>> root at ccc:/sys/alpha/conf#config ALEPH
>>> config: Error: device "le" is unknown
>>> config: 1 errors
>>> 
>>> i try to copy /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/if_le.c to /usr/src/sys/alpha/isa
>>> config terminated width same result.
>>
>>Ah - OK it's really tagged i386 only - I can't say if this is for good
>>reason or just tradition.
>>
>>There are also lines in i386/conf directory that you need to copy.
>
>sorry. what lines and fron what file?

i found!
from /sys/conf/files.i386 to /sys/conf/files.alpha

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Maxim Mazurok  (MMP2-RIPE)


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