Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:17:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bernacki Jr." <steve@ziplink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Any Success w/ Hitachi VisionBook PRO? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630105551.11349E-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>
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Hi everyone,
I received a Hitachi VisionBook PRO from my employer yesterday. All
excited, I downloaded the 2.2.7.1 boot floppy from freebsd.org and tried
it out. Right before doing this, I booted into Windows and took note of
the ethernet card: a "AMD PCNET family" card. I did a quick search of the
mailing list archives and got wind that there has been limited success
using this card with the Lance drivers (lnc). So, I booted the machine
with the boot floppy and saw the following message:
pci0:11: AND, device=0x2000, class=network (ethernet) int a irq 11 [no
driver assigned]
Grumble. It sees the hardware, but refuses to bind the lnc driver to it.
My roomate has the same identical laptop running Redhat v4.2 with no
problems -- it identifies the card as "PCNET/PCI-II 79C970A at 0xfcc0,
assigned irq 11".
This card appears to be kinda screwy, as it's identified as both "PCI &
ISA" ("choose yer favorite bus!"). In some messages I've pulled up from
the mailing list I've seen reference to both a lnc0 and lnc1 device;
however, one can only configure lnc0 from from the Visual Configuration
tool.
So, my question is: has anyone had any sucess with this particular card
and or laptop? I'd love to provide all the information I can if it'd help
more, or please let me know if it's a lost cause. :) I'm not a hardware
hacker but would be glad to help in anyway I can -- this is a very nice
laptop otherwise.
Thanks!
-S
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