System does not see network devices

Alexander Gumenyuk alexander at gumenyuk.org.ua
Mon May 11 10:20:07 UTC 2009


Thanks Pyun,

Official driver (
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?driverId=205) works good
with my device.
It's strange why it is not included in standard installation. May be due to
need to accept license agreement?

2009/5/11 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>

> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 03:39:24PM +0300, Alexander Gumenyuk wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Can somebody tell me which of following network devices of my laptop
> (Compaq
> > 6730s *FU573ES*) is/will be supported by FreeBSD?
> > I tried FreeBSD 7.1-Release i386 and none of them is detected by system.
> >
> > First one is Intel WiFi Link 5100, model: 512AG_MMW.
> >
> > Second one is Marvell Gigabit (don't know specific model)
> >
> > Here is pciconfig -lv info on them:
> >
> > none1 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x028000 card=0x12068086 chip=0x42328086
> rev=0x00
> > hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     class      = network
> > none2 at pci0:69:0:0:    class=0x020000 card=0x30e9103c chip=0x436c11ab
> > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
> >     class      = network
> >     subclass   = ethernet
> >
>
> This looks like Marvell Yukon 88E8072 Gigabit ethernet controller.
> It's not yet supported by msk(4) and needs more work to support
> Yukon Extreme and Yukon Supreme prior to adding the hardware to the
> supported list. I don't have that hardware so I'm not sure when the
> support code would be written though.
>
> > Which *drivers/boot options/kernel modules* should I use to enable them?
> >
>
> AFAIK Marvell used to release binary drivers for FreeBSD. I guess
> you can use them until msk(4) has a support code for 88E8072.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>


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