[Midnightbsd-users] basic setup

[Lucas Holt]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Ernst W. Winter wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> well I installed the base of it as version 0.3 as base and X only,
> the rest I have done by hand/manual.
> 
> The main reason is that it doesn't have my driver for the
> networkcard.
> 
> What version of FreeBSD is being used? I here the data what I run now
> as I only have a eeePC from ASUS/AMD and have the dmesg aoutput
> attached as it would be too long for the email.
> 
> What I need it a "acl" driver and then I can access the internet. I'm
> also completely mobil, that is with the Internet as well, no
> landlines. Works well here.
> 
> Have the MidnightBSD on a separate drive installed and running
> FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE on the eeePC. The eeePC is a 1215 Series.
> 
> Question is, can I use the src from FreeBSD 8.2_PRERELEASE with
> MidnightBSD?
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome and if I can test soemthing for you I
> will be glad to do it.
> 
> Ernst


FreeBSD 8.2 source probably won't work in most cases.  Quite a few things have changed between FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x.  Do you happen to know which FreeBSD device driver would be used?  Running this might help:

pciconf -lv

We'd only need the lines for the network devices.  Finally, is this a wired or wireless device.  Some laptop vendors ship internal USB based wireless devices now (Toshiba I'm looking at you).  FreeBSD 8 introduced a new USB stack that can handle WIFI cards on USB, but FreeBSD 7 does not (which is what we're mostly based on now).  I've been looking at the USB stacks in NetBSD and FreeBSD 8 as we need to support USB3.

I don't know what ASUS ships with this model as there seem to be two very different 1215 series (n vs t).  The former is an Intel ATOM + NVIDIA ION platform and the second is the AMD Athlon II + Radeon 4250 that I assume you have from the mention of AMD above.  

Older eee pc systems used either ale(4) or ae(4) for wired networking.  I don't believe they're in the generic kernel yet, but you can kldload them.  

kld_load if_ale 
or
kld_load if_ae

I've got a coworker that just purchased an eee pc and it might be the same model you have.  If you have difficultly getting the pciconf output, perhaps I can look at his.

Lucas Holt
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