NIC compatibility

[Mike Derouen]

That did the trick!  Thanks guys.  Sorry for the n00b questions :).  I was
under the impression that I had the "latest" FreeBSD7 with the RELEASE
build, but I was getting the RELEASE and STABLE meanings mixed up.

Thanks!
Mike




On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:41:42AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:28:32PM -0700, Mike Derouen wrote:
> >  > Jeremy,
> >  >
> >  > Thanks for your reply.  I wasn't able to find out much from the ASUS
> site
> >  > either.  Here is the pciconf output:
> >  >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >  > none13 at pci0:0:15:0:    class=0x020000 card=0x82ae1043 chip=0x07dc10de
> >  > rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
> >  >     vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
> >  >     class      = network
> >  >     subclass   = ethernet
> >
> > This looks like MCP73 ethernet controller. It's supported in
> > 7-stable so you may have to update to latest 7-stable to use the
> > ethernet controller.
>
> Mike, you can download one of the RELENG_7 (7.0-STABLE) ISO snapshots
> from here:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200806/
>
> You probably want 7.0-STABLE-200806-i386-disc1.iso or amd64-disc1.iso
> depending upon if you want a 32-bit or 64-bit OS.  (I'd recommend going
> with amd64, if at all possible.)
>
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