Detect hardware changes

[Loren M. Lang]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:27:06AM -0600, Keith Bottner wrote:
> > 
> > -----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
> 
> Ifconfig does not show skc0 but here is the output for completeness:

Did you try ifconfig -a?  Also, any lines on sk0 or skc0 from the output
of dmesg would be helpful.

> 
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
> 	inet 192.168.1.217 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 	inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe16:3d30%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
> 	ether 00:b0:d0:16:3d:30
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
> 
> And rc.conf is:
> 
> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
> hostname="gsdev.bltmobile.com"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.217  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_skc0="inet 10.0.130.204  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> linux_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> usbd_enable="YES"
> postgresql_enable="YES"
> 
> Anything else that I can send that will help?
> 
> Keith
> 
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