Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:34:37 -0600 From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> To: 'Lee J Carmichael' <lcarmich@wamnet.com>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: mac <mac.list@deam.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard Message-ID: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766D77@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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I dunno guys, I run FreeBSD 3.4 as Gateway with 2 NIC's installed. One of them is KNE100TX which is connected to ADSL modem, the device name is pn0 , and I never had any problems with it... Andrei... -----Original Message----- From: Lee J Carmichael [mailto:lcarmich@wamnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:30 AM To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: mac; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard 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, -------- 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. > > > ================================================================= > | 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: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > DaMac@irc: #team23.org > > > > > mac@deam.org > > > > > PGP-ID#: 0x6F28F58E > > > > > PGP-Type: DH/DSS | 2048/1024 > > > > > -------------------------------------> http://mac.deam.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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