Q&A
| Q1: | My Ethernet card isn't listed among the cards that FreeBSD supports, or I don't know what the heck my card is. What do I do? |
| A1: | Don't panic! There are a number of things you can try. First of all, just read the output of dmesg. Chances are that you'll see something among the device discovery lines which tells you what your Ethernet card is. If you don't, however, and you're sure that your card is seated properly in its slot and is working, try using it in a Windows machine. Windows might be able to tell you what the card is by what driver it picks. You can then look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES to see if a driver is there for that card; if so, you can compile it into the kernel as you saw in Hour 10, “The FreeBSD Kernel and the Device ... |
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