From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 4 21:51:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from trillian.santala.org (ip212-226-173-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.173.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA76E37B41A for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 86396 invoked by uid 11053); 5 Apr 2002 05:51:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Apr 2002 05:51:05 -0000 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:51:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Jarkko Santala X-X-Sender: jake@trillian.santala.org To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still about ISA NICs on FreeBSD 4.5/alpha In-Reply-To: <15532.25119.807428.35143@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: <20020405084009.J61960-100000@trillian.santala.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Nobody else has tried to run most ISA nics on anything but x86. > That's why they are not in the alpha GENERIC kernel. You're tredding > on new ground here. Your initial problems are configuration related. > Expect to have more problems once you get the drivers building. Ahaa, that explains a lot. ;) Using your instructions I was able to compile ep, ex and fe0 into the kernel. Now I'll just have to find a suitable time to shutdown the server and test the cards. > BTW, do you actually have all these nics? Actually I don't have ex (included that one by mistake), but I should have at least fe, ed and ep cards + I have access to the QA lab here at work and they have all kinds of NICs. Maybe I'll gather as many different ones as possible and spend a weekend trying them all. If you think that it would be worth it, that is. I might also have a bug to report concerning bridge + ipfw on alpha, but I'll have to repeat it a few times before I'll cry wolf. The firewall I have now is an alpha too and it panicked a few times when none of the interfaces had ip addresses assigned. More specs on that when I get around to it. -jake -- Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/jake/ System Administrator Cell. +358 40 720 4512 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message