Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:21:11 +0100 From: Peter V Coates-Buglear <peter@newnet.co.uk> To: Frederic Massicotte <frederic.massicotte@crc.ca> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x Message-ID: <3D94AFA7.3030308@newnet.co.uk> References: <200209271911.g8RJBGHT004850@mercury.dgim.crc.ca>
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Frederic Massicotte wrote: > Hello, > > I dot know the correct group I should send this message. Thanks for your > help. > > we are a research centre in communications and for our research we need to > use FreeBSD version 2.x on VMWare. For version 2.2.8 everything is working > fine the operating system have no problem to be installed and the network > behave well no device time out and the operating system find the emulated > PCI ADM PCNET II ethernet card. So for FreeBSD 2.2.8 we have the following > log for the Lance driver. > > ... > vga0 <Display device> rev 0 on pci 0:15:0 > lnc1 <PCNet / PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 16 int a irq 9 on pci 0:16:0 > lnc1: PCNet - PCI II address 00:50:56:a6:20:83 > Probing for devices on ISA bus : > ... > > In the case of FreeBSD 2.2.7 is not able to find the address of the card > and the type of the card but it is just able to find the PCI card. So for > FreeBSD 2.2.7 we have the following log for the Lance driver. > > ... > vga0 <Display device> rev 0 on pci 0:15:0 > lnc1 <PCNet / PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 16 int a irq 9 on pci 0:16:0 > Probing for devices on ISA bus : > ... > > In the case of FreeBSD 2.2.5 is not able to find the correct card. It find > a NE2100 card like > lnc1: NE2100 (C-LANCE) address 00:50:56:a6:20:83 and when we configure the > card we got the device timeout message. > > We this situation we are not able to get the network card up and running. > If someone have a suggestion we will be very happy because we need to > install various version of FreeBSD from the version 2.0.5 to 2.2.8 and we > were just able to get one version working with the network. Hi, For an o/s 4 years old you'll need to use a network card that was current at the time. Something like the original Intel Pro 100B NIC card should be fine. Try e-bay or some such if you don't carry any old spares. Peter NewNet plc UK -- ____________________________________________________ Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.newnet.co.uk/av/>; and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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