Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:52:43 -0500 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: schilling <schilling@home.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!! Message-ID: <4.1.19991228125230.009de100@mail.udel.edu>
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Have you gone through the steps of building yourself a custom kernel? Or have you just used the Generic one? If you bought "The Complete FreeBSD" there's a good section in there on building a custom kernel. If not, in the online handbook there's info at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html In the end run, did you include support for your new ethernet card in your kernel, recompile & reinstall the kernel? According to the LINT file (typically in /sys/i386/conf), you need the following: device ex0 at isa? port? net irq? Since I haven't played with many ISA devices, I'm not sure if you'll need more information included or not. Since it seems like you had an ethernet card previously installed, I'm assuming that you have the following line already included in your kernel? : pseudo-device ether If you haven't already built your custom kernel, you really need to do that first. Start by copying the GENERIC file and editing that to your needs, pulling in any information from the LINT file that you need. Hope that helps.... --John Papalia >Please someone help me out a little bit here >First of all: i'm a newbie ! >I recently installed 3.2-release ... >Now i've changed my nic and i can't really >get it working .... >How and "where" do i tell my system to use >the new nic ... >The nic is an Intel Etherexpress 16 ISA ... >Port now: 300 IRQ now: 3 > >Please help > >/schilling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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