Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:02:11 -0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: "'Randall Hopper'" <aa8vb@pagesz.net>, Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>, Tim Gibson <tim@imc.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 3.0 install Message-ID: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108817@OCTOPUS>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Randall Hopper [mailto:aa8vb@pagesz.net] > Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 10:48 PM > To: Thierry Herbelot; Tim Gibson > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 3.0 install > > > Thierry Herbelot: > |Tim Gibson wrote: > |> Don't know if I've got a problem here or if it's supposed to be > |> like this. I've got a few old HP Vectras with an AMD ether on > |> board. The generic install kernel sees the ether, but doesn't > |> seem to poll it for the MAC and then doesn't finish setting up > |> the lnc0 device for use with install. 2.2.7 did do this with > |> no probs. > ... > |The lance/Ethernet seems to be broken these times (see in > the archives > |if the messages on the subject already went in) > > What about it is broken? I've got a Lance board (Allied > Telesyn AT-1500BT) > I've been using for a long while. Great performance and > works fine with > FreeBSD. Currently running 3.0-RELEASE. There were changes made to the driver for 2.2.8 and 3.0 that supposedly made it detect more NIC's but in fact broke a lot of cases that had previously worked. I'm working on sorting this out for 3.1 Paul Richards Ph.D. Originative Solutions Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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