From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 12:03:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13972 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from octopus.originative.co.uk (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13961 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by OCTOPUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:02:12 -0000 Message-ID: From: Paul Richards To: "'Randall Hopper'" , Thierry Herbelot , Tim Gibson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 3.0 install Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:02:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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