Re: support for more network interface drivers with kfreebsd-image
Hi,
To answer my own question:
On 4/6/11 10:22 PM, Benno Overeinder wrote:
> I installed Debian/kFreeBSD using the netinstall CDROM image, but
> unfortunately the necessary network interface driver was not included.
> So I ended with a really minimal system and no network. All our 64-bit
> systems (AMD64 architecture) have either the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
> Connection (if_em.ko module) or Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T
> (if_bce.ko module) network interface cards.
>
> <snip/>
>
> So here is my request. Are there if_bce.ko (most preferably) or
> if_em.ko available out there? Could someone provide them (to me) for
> the kernel (kfreebsd-image-8.1-1-amd64) on the Debian/kFreeBSD
> netinstall image debian-6.0.1a-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso?
As the if_bce.ko kernel module was missing for the
kfreebsd-image-8.1-1-amd64 kernel, I copied the if_bce.ko module from
the binary FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE distribution, put it in the directory
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>, and finally een kldload if_bce. And it
worked! The interface card was recognized, and after ifup bce0 the
interface was configured. (This needs adding iface bce0 in
/etc/network/interfaces, as it was not configured during install.)
After upgrading the system from squeeze to testing, which upgraded the
kernel to 8.2, I did the same "trick" and copied the if_bce.ko from the
binary FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE.
-- Benno
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Benno J. Overeinder
NLnet Labs
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/
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