I've just put together a new amd64 machine in an ASUS Vintage-ae1 barebones system. After giving up on FreeBSD 5.4 when it gagged on my hard drive, I decided to try going all the way to 6.0beta4. Almost everything went without incident except for mounting usb sticks and the on-board network card isn't coming up. It seems to get detected, but not initialized.
When I run dmesg, I get the following lines (I can't post the whole thing since I can't get files from the bsd box to my windows box -- no mcopy and I don't know how to mount the usb stick either): plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 and when I type ifonfig, I get: plip0: flags=<108851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=blah,blah,blah.... I think my chipsets for the asus vintage-ae1 is/are: northbridge: SIS 760GX southbridge: SIS 965L and so doing a little research, I think the sis device driver might work (maybe?) and so I need to recompile the kernel to get the onboard nic to light up. So I've been hunting around to see if I can recompile the kernel to include the SIS ethernet driver and I'm having some trouble with the process of building a new kernel under 6.0-BETA4...
From re-reading my references, compiling a new kernel is accomplished with
the following steps: 1) cd /sys/amd64/conf 2) cp KERNEL MYKERNEL 3) make the edits to MYKERNEL (adding the line "device sis" to the file) 4) cd /usr/src 5) make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL 6) make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL 7) reboot okay, so when I attempt to build a new kernel, I get the following: bobby# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make: don't know how to make buildkernel. Stop bobby# now what? --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.forestinformatics.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"