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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 13:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      KP <keith_proffitt@yahoo.com>
To:        Flemming "Frøkjær" <flemming@froekjaer.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel/Config Install problems (DFE-530TX+, fd0, config>  di fe0, and more.
Message-ID:  <20010502203130.17777.qmail@web3303.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20010502093157.00ac57f8@sleipner.eiffel.dk>

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I have reviewed infomation from other postings on the
FreeBSD site.  Other have stated that the rl driver is
the driver that works with the DFE-530TX+ NIC.  The
DFE-530TX NIC uses a different driver, so it was real
confusing to see what driver I needed.

The DMESG shows the same for the GENERIC kernel and
the CUSTOME kernel.  It's like it does not see the
card at all.  I'm starting to wonder if there is a
conflict with the BIOS and the NIC.  Is there a way to
test for conflicts with the BIOS and NIC?  This would
go along way in helping me understand the
relationships between hardware/BIOS/OS.

Thanks.
Keith Proffitt


--- Flemming Frøkjær <flemming@froekjaer.org> wrote:
> At 08:41 PM 4/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >I am extremely new to any *NIX OS (brought up on
> MS).
> >I need to know how to config the kernal to see
> >(identify) the DLink DFE-530TX+ NIC and load the
> >proper device driver (rl ???).  Also, the
> 
> I don't know that card. It could be 1 of 3 things. 
> 1) It's not the rl driver.
> 2) The DFE-530TX+ is not supported by FreeBSD
> 3) The NIC is broken
> 
> What happens if you boot a GENERIC kernel?
> Could you post a DMESG output of that?
> 
> >instructions(in the book - came with CDs) for make
> >depend, make and make install seem to conflict what
> I
> >have seen on FreeBSD site. Any insight would be
> 
> I'm not sure what the book sayes. The corect way is
> to run 
> /usr/sbin/configure YOURKERNEL
> cd ../../YOURKERNEL
> make depend
> make
> make install
> reboot
> 
> >-------------
> >DMESG
> >-------------
> >config> di sn0
> >config> di lnc0
> >config> di ie0
> >config> di fe0
> >No such device: fe0
> >Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
> >config> di ed0
> >No such device: ed0
> >Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
> >config> di cs0
> >config> q
> 
> You have a lot of di <something> in your
> /boot/kernel.conf
> Try to delete them before you boot a GENERIC kernel.
> 
> \Flemming
> 


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