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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Erlin <tim@firstinitiallastname.com>
To:        Taro <tarozax404@sbcglobal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NetGear FA411 driver support in FreeBSD 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020423074644.U32252-100000@fw.firstinitiallastname.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CC4ED02.5020104@sbcglobal.net>

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I had nightmares about my netgear card and FreeBSD. My first suggestion is
to go out and get a nice supported card. I like the SMC cards; not dongles
to break.

Other suggestions: is the card registering at all? Try tailing
/var/log/messages when you insert it. There should be a message. You might
need to edit /etc/pccard.conf to get it to work. Hell, is pccardd runnning
at all?

Also, I think I had to set duplex manually on my netgear card to get it to
work.

Hope that helps...
--Tim


On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Taro wrote:

> I have a NetGear PCMCIA ethernet card (FA411) and FreeBSD 4.5. When I
> type ifconfig -a, I don't see a network device corresponding to this
> card. What should I do? Here is the output of ifconfig -a; xl0 is the
> built-in ethernet device that Dell supplied with my Inspiron 4100:
>
> [tarozax@eldamar ] $ ifconfig -a
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=3<rxcsum,txcsum>
> inet 192.168.1.110 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> inet6 fe80::206:5bff:fe37:8a4b%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> ether 00:06:5b:37:8a:4b
> media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
> status: active
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Taro
>
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