From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 5 7:29:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FDF37B99B for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020405152615.QGGE18078.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:26:15 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g35FQFt2002845; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g35FQFO8002844; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:26:15 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200204051526.g35FQFO8002844@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020403 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jarkko Santala Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Still about ISA NICs on FreeBSD 4.5/alpha In-reply-to: <20020405084009.J61960-100000@trillian.santala.org> References: <20020405084009.J61960-100000@trillian.santala.org> Comments: In-reply-to Jarkko Santala message dated "Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:51:04 +0300." From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:26:15 -0800 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 If memory serves me right, Jarkko Santala wrote: > 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. If and when you get these things working, can you drop me a note to make sure the {hardware,release} notes for the Alpha get updated appropriately? Thanks! Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message