Detect hardware changes

[Robert Marella]

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On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:54:27 -0600
"Keith Bottner" <keith at barkinglizards.com> wrote:

Please do not top post!

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:lorenl at alzatex.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:06 AM
> To: Peter Giessel
> Cc: Keith Bottner; 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: Re: Detect hardware changes
> 
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:02:25PM -0900, Peter Giessel wrote:
> > On 12/8/2005 11:51, Keith Bottner seems to have typed:
> > > skc0 at pci2:9:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x00241737 chip=0x10321737 
> > > rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> > >     vendor   = 'Linksys'
> > >     device   = 'EG1032 Gigabit Ethernet'
> > >     class    = network
> > >     subclass = ethernet
> > 
> > Looks like this should be supported using the nge driver.
> 
> No, actually the sk driver, look at the first line of pciconfig
> output. ifconfig -a should list a network card called skc0 which you
> just need to configure.  If all you need is dhcp then just run
> dhclient skc0.  Add the device to rc.conf for it to work on boot.
> Use man rc.conf for help or copy the line for the xl0 network card
> you already have.
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> 
> ipconfig -a doesn't show the skc0 device which I believe is my
> ultimate problem. Can I infer from your earlier message that this
> means the sk module is not being loaded or is not available? How can
> I check to see if the loadable module is installed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Keith

Hello Keith

skc0 is the controller. You should see sk0 in ifconfig -a.

Can you please show us the output of ifconfig -a and rc.conf. 

Thank you
Robert