From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 11:16:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:16:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00144 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.66]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA392E; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:15:53 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902071805.NAA00689@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:24:57 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: Loading Intel EtherExpress card Cc: paulr@wans.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote, > The original poster said he had the 2.2.8 CDs. Oversight on my part... > The LINT info on ex0 is... well there is no comment on it. From LINT > kernel, [ snip ] > We see 'ex0' as a device line, but no mention of it, and what cards it > is meant to support in the commentary (it's not even listed on the > title line). So, my question is, where is the documentation that says > that it for the EthernetExpress? LINT,v is our friend. See, I `cheated'. It's one of those left out things in the old LINTs. In my LINT the line is present about the EtherExpress, so I had a slight advantage. >> >> > device fxp0 >> > >> > That is the card supported by the GENERIC kernel. >> >> Which is indeed PCI and not what we want. > > But the only device for which 'EthernetExpress' popped up in the LINT > kernel. Just making sure the original poster had the right bus. I know, and I wasn't putting you down. I was taking my guess that since Paul provided more background on the problem than the average person asking for help that he knew what he was talking about =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl Time is merely a residue of Reality... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message