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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:29:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        mac <mac.list@deam.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1001108092558.14951h-100000@y.cops.wamnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011072353370.19476-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu>

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Hello Kenneth,

I agree, that changing the attach section wouldn't be too difficult. I'm
sorry if I had the jargon incorrect as well. 

Take Care,
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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:

> 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.
> 
> 
> =================================================================
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> 
> 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: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> 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
> > > > > 
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