From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 10 6:49:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moran.grauel.com (usr1-17.mintel.net [63.81.123.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520DC37B9BC for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjk@moran.grauel.com) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by moran.grauel.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA24682; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:49:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjk) From: Richard J Kuhns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14738.45799.87381.40883@localhost.grauel.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:49:27 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with built-in ethernet on new laptop, please In-Reply-To: <14737.25844.924017.148281@localhost.grauel.com> References: <14737.25844.924017.148281@localhost.grauel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wrote:nn > I was just given a new laptop (a BSI NP-2850), which has a built-in > ethernet card. I've loaded 4.0 (from CD), and things seem to be working > fairly smoothly except for the ethernet. > ... It works now. The problem was a new chip id. I mangled if_lnc.c, rebuilt the kernel, and it worked just fine. I then cvsuped to get up to 4.1-stable, and after rebuilding everything (which went perfectly smoothly, by the way) found that it's recognized without my having to do anything extra. It's identified as a PCnet-FAST+. -stable also seems to like the sound card: Yamaha DS-1E (YMF744), which was pleasant. So far, I'm very happy with this laptop. 600 MH PIII, 12 GB drive, 128 MB RAM, 8 MB Rage LT Pro video, DVD, 15.1" display, built-in ethernet for under US$2500. It weighs a little over 7 pounds. It only has a single slot, though. I found it at http://www.bsicomputer.com/. Thanks to Sean O'Connell, too, who came along with some good advice (try 4.1) even if it was a few minutes late :-). -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message