From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 15:14:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Amnesiac.123.org (root@Amnesiac.mtl.pl [195.116.4.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15348 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcl@Amnesiac.123.org) Received: from localhost (mcl@localhost) by Amnesiac.123.org (8.9.0/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id XAA05107; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:51:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:51:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Michal Listos To: "Schuder, Rick" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 3Com 3C905B NICs In-Reply-To: <199806091754.KAA23343@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Schuder, Rick wrote: > Anyone have a driver for 3Com's 3C905B network cards? The supported > configuration area says freebsd will support 3Com 3c90x. However, when I go > to /stand/sysinstall, configure, network, interface...I don't see an > ethernet device, rather lp0 is shown (which is some kind of parallel laplink > device). I'm currently running an older version of FreeBSD 2.2.5. I believe that vx driver should work for it. >From man 4 vx: DESCRIPTION The vx driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590 and 3c595 EtherLink III and Fast EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode. HISTORY The vx device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. It was derived from the ep driver, from which it inherits most of its limitations. Michal * God used fork() to create Eve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message