FreeBSD on Asus EEE PC

[Henri-Pierre Charles]

Hello,

On 1/3/08, Kevin Lo <kevlo at kevlo.org> wrote:
> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > Btw, you can also use a NDIS mini port driver until native driver hits
> > tree.

I have tried the ndis. The loadable kernel build sucessfully using the
lan/attansic/ris/winxp_32/l251x86.sys/inf file from the DVD.

The module kernel build successfully and give :

ndis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1e:8c:bc:9f:7a
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier

The /var/log/messages say :
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: no match for KeBugCheckEx
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: no match for KeTickCount
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: no match for RtlUpcaseUnicodeString
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: ndis0: <Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100
Base-T Controller> mem 0xfbfc0000-0xfbffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on
pci3
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: ndis0: [ITHREAD]
Feb  7 15:32:16 eeehpc kernel: ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
Feb  7 15:32:17 eeehpc kernel: ndis0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
Feb  7 15:32:17 eeehpc kernel: ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:1e:8c:bc:9f:7a

But the system core dump when I try to use ifconfig inet ....

> Yes, I worked on Attansic L1 driver which was based on Linux atl1
> driver.
> I sent my patch to Alex Lukin four months ago:
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2007-09/msg00081.html

Could you post your patch, I'm interessted to give a try !

The most annoying think is the Fn+F5 (switch from lcd to the VGA port)
which doesn't work. It's the only reason I don't swith from xandros to
FreeBSD on my machine (I actually use a bootable usb key for my
trials). Any idea to debug this problem ?

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