From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 20:57:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145DA37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA26696; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:57:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA20290; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:57:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20283; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:57:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:57:06 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Lee J Carmichael Cc: mac , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard In-Reply-To: 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 In that case it would not have said "de0" I did look at the code, it would say "pci0" instead of "de0" so it at least got through the probe portion of the code, it probably failed in attach, I guess I just used the wrong word... chances are that if someone goes through the code it is probably not too hard to make this chip work. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee J Carmichael wrote: > No it isn't. Just because it attempted to guess doesn't mean it was able > to load a driver or attach a device. If it doesn't show up as a network > device it didn't find a driver. Read the device driver code, I bet you > wouldn't find support for that revision of the chip in it. Just like the > AMD chipset I checked over. Basically, it finds a superset for that > chipset but not that particular version so it guesses at detection but > isn't able to anything more. > > Mac: I ran into this on 4.1. > > -------- > Lee Carmichael WAM!NET Inc. > System Engineer 655 Lone Oak Rd Building E > 651-256-5292 Eagan, MN 55121 > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > this is wrong... it says "de0:" so that means it IS attaching a device > > driver. > > > > > > ================================================================= > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > ================================================================= > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee J Carmichael wrote: > > > > > Hello Mac, > > > > > > In my experience, this means that the ethernet card/chipset is detected > > > but that it does not have a driver for it. Basically, you need to search > > > for a driver(or write one) to use the card/chipset. > > > > > > -------- > > > Lee Carmichael WAM!NET Inc. > > > System Engineer 655 Lone Oak Rd Building E > > > 651-256-5292 Eagan, MN 55121 > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, mac wrote: > > > > > > > hi there, > > > > > > > > i got a really strange problem with this KNE100TX from Kingston: > > > > de0: at device 11.0 on pci0 > > > > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > > > > > > > that's the bootmessage (the dc-driver did not produce any information at > > > > boottime), but i can't attach ip-numbers on it. if a make a ifconfig -a > > > > the device is not listed. > > > > > > > > die digital-chip on the card says: 21140-AF > > > > > > > > could someone help me? > > > > > > > > thanks in advance > > > > mac > > > > > > > > -- > > > > DaMac@irc: #team23.org > > > > mac@deam.org > > > > PGP-ID#: 0x6F28F58E > > > > PGP-Type: DH/DSS | 2048/1024 > > > > -------------------------------------> http://mac.deam.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message