[Midnightbsd-users] basic setup

[Ernst W. Winter]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011, Lucas Holt wrote:

> 
> On Feb 6, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Ernst W. Winter wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
[snip shortened stuff]

I shorten this so the parts that are needed can be discusses or
worked on. This was a main description of my few experiences.

> > 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
> 
attached for viewing in text format.

> We'd only need the lines for the network devices.  Finally, is this
> a wired or wireless device.  Some laptop vendors ship internal USB

it is a wireless device, a USB stick that is either attached to the
3G router, a Netgear 3G+/UMTS Mobile Broadband Wireless-N Router
MBRN3000. Easy to configure and better then using ppp. More on this
later or if interested people can mail me personally, but otherwise
all via the newsgroup.

> 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.
> 
Yes, I realized that as from 8 they have rewritten the while USB
code, from what I heard. But it is working extremley well.

> 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

Yes it is T, as it has a AMD processor, as I don not use or want
Intel. There are even drivers for various things with ASU in FreeBSD,
for exemple you can load: "amdtemp_load="YES".

> 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.  
> 
Well it is 12" and has HDMI output and 1366x768HD.

> 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
> 
Well for the 3G there is no need that I have the WLAN running, the
WLAN is a ath (Athereos) for Wlan and for the standard network (RJ45)

> 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.
> 
No problem here, I use "AMD" onloy as i never had any problems with
it under FreeBSD, so even if I would build one I would buy a ASUS MB
and CPU. With the new Intel there are new parts that don't work with
even the 8.2 FreeeBSD.

Well lets see how we go, my main concern is getting into the Internet
and it is also for you guys something new for late HW and I will
help, answer questions and all that, so no worries.

X is up and running well. I have compiled the src but it fell over.

Thanks again ...

> Lucas Holt
> Luke at FoolishGames.com

Ernst

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