From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 17:10:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23683 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 17:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23543; Fri, 1 May 1998 17:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10196; Sat, 2 May 1998 10:09:42 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 10:09:42 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: John Ioannidis cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.6 support for the 3COM 3C905 In-Reply-To: <199805011802.OAA07276@bual.research.att.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998, John Ioannidis wrote: > According to the FreeBSD handbook, the 3COM 3C905 10/100 Mbit ethernet > cards are supported (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook10.html). > > Yet, I just installed 2.2.6 out of the cdrom.com cd-roms, and my 905 > was not recognized. The driver is supposed to be the vx driver, and I > verified that it's in my kernel. What gives? There is a new version of the 3C905, with a different device ID. I gave someone a patch to test whether the existing driver would work for this card, and the preliminary answer was "No". However, the issue is obviously not closed. Please boot with -v option, and then /sbin/dmesg | mail -s 'dmesg output with new vx card' danny@freebsd.org and I'll look at it over the weekend. regards, Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message