Re: Attansic L1e Gigabit Ethernet driver support

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Franck Royer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Acer Aspire 6930 and I'm using the freebsd 8.0-CURRENT branch 
> (the 2009-05) on amd64.
> 
> As said in the topic, I have a network card Attansic L1e Gigabit 
> Ethernet which is not recognize by the GENERIC kernel and current 
> age/ale drivers.
> 

That's strange. Would you show me the output of "pciconf -lcv"?
It's possible that you have third generation ethernet controller,
AR8131/AR8132 from Atheros. I'm working on supporting these
controllers and you can get the latest driver for AR8131/AR8132
from the following URL.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alc.c
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alcreg.h
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/if_alcvar.h
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/alc/Makefile

> I'd like to know what is the current solution to make it works because I 
> saw different solutions. I'll probably try this one : 
> http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2244 (patching the ale driver, 

Ignore the thread. You don't need any patches to make ale(4) run on
RELENG_7/CURRENT.

> but for now I'm waiting for the end of the download of my freebsd dvd 
> cause of course I need the kernel sources to compile it).
> 
> I can give my dmesg messages but it's not obvious (cause I doing a zfs 
> only installation, it is why I took the current, and my other installed 
> system is a ubuntu without zfs support :/).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Franck