Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:28:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: Dermot McNally <derm@iol.ie>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with ed driver (PCI) Message-ID: <199808010528.WAA00378@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:00:27 %2B0200." <19980731100027.62584@deepo.prosa.dk>
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> Dermot McNally writes: > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:41:15 GMT, you wrote: > > > > >However, this doesn't help, because after boot time, any attempt to > > >configure the interface leads to the error: > > > > > >interface ed0 does not exist > > > > OK, There have been a few suggestions so far, none of which hits the > > problem. I'd better give a few more details. > > > > The card is actually sold under the name "Micronet" although it is > > recognised as a Realtek chipset. Its little green light goes on, indicating > > that it sees the network OK and the corresponding little green light on the > > hub comes on too. > > Ok, I've had this problem too -- I was at the ISOC Workshops in > Geneva, and we wanted to install FreeBSD on the machines we had > there (P200 HP Vectra ?L) -- the cards available were all > 3c905, and a few spare Realtek chipset-based PCI ed's. > > FreeBSD 2.2.6 _with this machine_ has the exact same symptom: > > - probe find the card (as ed1) > - ifconfig sees _no_ ed1. No, this is PCI probe detects card, 'ed' probe does *not* find it. > What bugs me is the _same_ card on another 2.2.6, this > one ASUS TX-97 based, works fine. I even copied > and pasted the relevant lines from the kernel config file... > > Could it be a PCI chipset bogosity ? Sounds more like a BIOS issue. Try altering the "PnP OS installed" setting and see what happens. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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