Question of FreeBSD 7.0 support of my ethernet adapter

[Rui Paulo]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:21PM -0400, dick thompson wrote:
> My computer came with the Attansic L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter.  With 
> Linux I need distros using a kernel  later than 2.6.22.1.  Does FreeBSD 7.0 
> support this ethernet adapter or has a work around come out that will work 
> with it?  I know that the older BSD releases did not support it but don't 
> know if the new one does or not.  This adapter is the same as the Atheros 
> L1 Gigabyte ethernet adapter and appears to be widely used on the lower 
> level Intel Core 2 Duo computers (mine is the E4400 chipset).  I would like 
> to use the FreeBSD but I am retired and do not want to have to do a lot of 
> changing of what came with this computer for economic reasons.

Try upgrading to FreeBSD-CURRENT. It supports your NIC.
The device driver is called age(4). See:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=age&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current&format=html

Regards,
-- 
Rui Paulo