If the driver for the NIC is not present in GENERIC
, but a driver is available, the driver will need to be loaded before the NIC can be configured and used. This may be accomplished in one of two ways:
/boot/loader.conf
. Not all NIC drivers are available as modules./usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES
, /usr/src/sys/*
arch*/conf/NOTES
and the manual page of the driver to determine which line to add to the custom kernel configuration file. For more information about recompiling the kernel, refer to Chapter 8, Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel. If the NIC was detected at boot, the kernel does not need to be recompiled.