Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:42:41 +0000 From: "Mark Lipham" <marklipham@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: NIC Dilemna Message-ID: <F26lLFNfPs4zoF5TvMp000205eb@hotmail.com>
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I am having some serious difficulty getting my Netgear fa310 NIC to work or any pnic chip card for that matter. I have freeBSD 4.2 powerpack and have installed it. the system has a problem recognizing the card's ports and memory range. the driver needed for my card i am told is the "dc" driver i have run "dmesg | less" after booting and sure enough I saw my card listed as dc0 however there are some error messages : "dc0: couldn't map ports / memory device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6" therefore when I ran ifconfig no nic was listed. I have also tried entering userconfig right before the kernel starts, boot -c, to manually try and set paramaters but I see no appropiate drivers under the Network tab. so I pulled out the card and looked for jumpers or swithces but there are none so it looks like i need to configure my kernel to match the card. However, I am not sure how to do this any suggestions? Should I just scrap this card and get a more high end NIC such as a 3Com 905? thanks for your help mark _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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