Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:24:57 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: paulr@wans.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loading Intel EtherExpress card Message-ID: <XFMail.990207202457.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199902071805.NAA00689@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On 07-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote, > The original poster said he had the 2.2.8 CDs. Oversight on my part... > The LINT info on ex0 is... well there is no comment on it. From LINT > kernel, [ snip ] > We see 'ex0' as a device line, but no mention of it, and what cards it > is meant to support in the commentary (it's not even listed on the > title line). So, my question is, where is the documentation that says > that it for the EthernetExpress? LINT,v is our friend. See, I `cheated'. It's one of those left out things in the old LINTs. In my LINT the line is present about the EtherExpress, so I had a slight advantage. >> >> > device fxp0 >> > >> > That is the card supported by the GENERIC kernel. >> >> Which is indeed PCI and not what we want. > > But the only device for which 'EthernetExpress' popped up in the LINT > kernel. Just making sure the original poster had the right bus. I know, and I wasn't putting you down. I was taking my guess that since Paul provided more background on the problem than the average person asking for help that he knew what he was talking about =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl Time is merely a residue of Reality... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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