From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 17:40: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3977237B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:39:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.134.159.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.134.159] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Vjj3-0003Wq-00; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:39:54 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0U1d8i99912; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:38:58 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: kkonaka@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ie(4) - EtherExpress16 Message-ID: <20020129173858.K79208@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kkonaka@mac.com on Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:52:26PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:52:26PM -0500, kkonaka@mac.com wrote: > how do I install 4.4-RELEASE into a PC with only > etherexpress16 - ie(4) network interface? From what media? From a CDROM, your NIC doesn't really come into play. > I did install 4.4-RELEASE on another PC with 3c590, (over > both ftp&nfs install) but it looks like installer for > 4.4-RELEASE doesn't have immediate support for ie(4). Hmmm... Nope. Looks like it is not in the install kernel, but I still see ie(4) listed in the GENERIC kernel. > I've casually tried 4.2-RELEASE installer which appears > to have ie(4) support, but somehow this seems to have > failed probing the hardware (?) The ie(4) is a jumpered ISA card, IIRC. The settings on the card have to match up with the kernel's idea of where to find the card. > now I'm thinking about two choises: > > - 0) first, swap the disk beween two machines once, then > - a) install 4.4-RELEASE, then somehow reconfigure the > kernel to have ie(4) support. Once you install, ie(4) support will be in the GENERIC kernel. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message