From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 20:45:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA20093 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from metronet.com (root@mail.metronet.com [192.245.137.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA20084 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perseverance (dal95.metronet.com) by metronet.com with SMTP id AA13345 (5.67a/IDA1.5hp for ); Fri, 14 Jun 1996 22:46:23 -0500 Received: (from tsprad@localhost) by perseverance (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA00899 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 22:34:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Ted Spradley Message-Id: <199606150334.WAA00899@perseverance> Subject: Configuring 3Com 3C590 Etherlink III PCI To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 22:33:22 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need some advice on configuring FreeBSD for a PCI-bus machine with a 3Com 3c590 Etherlink III. I've installed 2.1R on it, but now I have to build a kernel that understands the ATAPI CD-ROM drive and the PCI ethernet board. I've found pci/if_vx.c and if_vxreg.h in the -current sources. My questions are: 1. what do I put into my config file to specify that device? 2. can I expect to successfully add that device to a -stable kernel, or should I get all the -current sources and build a -current kernel? and 3. if I need a -current kernel, do I also need a -current userland? I'm hoping I can build something that will work with that ethernet board on my -stable machine, because I don't want to have to install all the sources on that machine. I suppose if I could wait until the next CD-ROM release comes out it would have the driver.... -- Ted Spradley tsprad@metronet.com Information tends to drive out knowledge. [...] many people cannot tell the difference between information and knowledge, not to mention wisdom, which even knowledge tends sometimes to drive out. -Heinz Pagels