From owner-freebsd-net Fri Sep 27 12:21:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD5437B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (newnet.co.uk [212.87.80.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069F943E3B for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@newnet.co.uk) Received: from newnet.co.uk (peter.port [212.87.87.37]) by newnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8RJLVNE043203; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:21:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@newnet.co.uk) Message-ID: <3D94AFA7.3030308@newnet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:21:11 +0100 From: Peter V Coates-Buglear User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederic Massicotte Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x References: <200209271911.g8RJBGHT004850@mercury.dgim.crc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 rev 0 on pci 0:15:0 > lnc1 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 rev 0 on pci 0:15:0 > lnc1 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 and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message