Re: new server setup questions
- From: Ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:49:23 -0600
On Saturday 17 March 2007 9:24 pm, you wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:21:48 -0600
Ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly
with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to
work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on
google / "the complete freeBSD" / "the freeBSD handbook". the handbook
(section 11.8
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-
setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using
this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried
to use kldload and got the error message:
"kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted"
of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of
freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the
drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source
version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this?
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Ray
machine specs
ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo
2GB ram
AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me)
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a friend of mine installed a 6.2-RELEASE system with an nforce network card
in it a few weeks ago. upon intial install, the nve adapter would not fire
up. he put in another card that was supported (a linksys), did his cvsup
and buildworld, and the nve driver worked after that.
however, the nve thru our freebsd router has had trouble several times,
locking the system up over frames with larger than 1500 mtu (or something
to that effect). my friend had to dump the nve and just settle for the
linksys, in the name of system system stability.
cheers,
jonathan
I didn't get anywhere with 7-current, (it's shortcomings or my lack of
knowledge, I don't know.) but I think my good friend Google came through
again. I found a site
(http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html) that
provided a patch for phy1000 stuff (side note: can anybody point me to info
on what this is all about?) and a new nforce driver source. This site
includes a fairly detailed walk through. (oh yeah, don't try to use the 6.2
stable patch on a 6.2 release system, it doesn't work :) )
the only slight concern that I have is when I run
sysinstall ->configure -> Networking -> interfaces
the network ports show up as
nfe0 <unknown network interface type>
nfe1 <unknown network interface type>
is this anything to worry about?
I now have 2 new questions:
kldload still gave me the same error as mentioned earlier in this thread
does kldload not work, even for root when securelevel is set to secure, or
does it fail when /boot/loader.conf is empty or ...?
the reason I ask is that manually editing loader.conf works, kldload doesn't.
How is the best way to test for stability? Just because it boots every time
and pings google doesn't mean it's ready for production, especially in light
of Jonathan's comment above.
Thanks,
Ray
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