From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 8: 9:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A73F37B774 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip83.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.83]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20809; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e51FBBu04390; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:11:11 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Chris Browning Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ep driver in 4.0 Message-ID: <20000601111111.B4341@earthlink.net> References: <200006011453.KAA03844@mail2.lig.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200006011453.KAA03844@mail2.lig.bellsouth.net>; from brownicm@bellsouth.net on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:48:45AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The ep driver in 4.0 automatically detects the configuration of your NICs, which is why it doesn't show up in the configuration menu. It works fine in 4.0: ep0: <3Com 3C509-TP EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 7 on isa0 ep0: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:d8:0a:b3 The other change is that all you need is device ep in your kernel configuration file. Eric On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 10:48:45AM -0700, Chris Browning wrote: > I was all set to upgrade my firewall to 4.0 when I noticed that > there's no option for one of my NICs (ep -- 3c509) in the hardware > config. Given that I have to re-compile the kernel anyway, is the ep > driver available? Can I use an older one? Any ideas on how I would > do that? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message