From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 10:22:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp1.mastery.ca (comp1.mastery.ca [209.202.88.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD18537B401 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail@max-info.net) Received: from 78kw954 ([209.202.88.150]) (authenticated) by comp1.mastery.ca (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5DHM8L28224; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:22:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mail@max-info.net) Message-ID: <018a01c0f42d$5fe93ac0$3200000a@Intranet> From: "Ryan Masse" To: "K. Greenwood" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" , References: <20010613162014.12192.qmail@web14102.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: How to make a d-link 530TX card work Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:22:07 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dosen't the + still use the MII Bus? Instead of device vr use device rl. looks like i didn't read the email closely enough. i have a half dozen bsd machines here with the 530tx cards. in fact i just got a shipment of systems in for the office with use of the Dlink 530tx cards no problem. I guess different suppliers carry what they think is best. Ryan > Sorry to barge in and nit-pick, but I just thought I > would point out that he specified a d-link 530 tx +, > which actually uses the rl (realtek) driver (about > which many previous posts have described in a less > than pleasant manner). > > I have a couple of these and wish I could still find a > place that sells the vr version! > > K. Greenwood > > > --- Ryan Masse wrote: > > you shouldn't need any additional kernel config for > > that card from the base > > GENERIC kernel. > > > > # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus > > controller code. > > # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in > > order to use these NICs! > > device miibus # MII bus support > > device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine > > II > > > > Those are the references to that particular card. > > > > Ryan > > > > > Hi, > > > thanks a lot to you guys for helping me out with > > my 20GB hard > > > drive partitioning problem. > > > i am facing another problem with my networking > > card (D-Link 530 > > > TX+). > > > when i try to set it up during the initial kernel > > configuration, > > > using the card type NE2000 under Network section, > > i face a peculiar > > > problem. From my windows 98 i have found that the > > card's memory address is > > > 0xed800000 but FreeBSD only allows memory options > > upto 0xffffff . i don't > > > understand what the problem is . > > > if i setup freebsd without setting up the network, > > how can i later > > > , if i can, add the networking card because the > > memory problem will > > > persist. and can i use the driver for Linux 6.x > > for FreeBSD. > > > thanks guys, i really appreciate any help. > > > cheers, > > > Shailesh Sheoran > > > M.ASc. > > > Department of Electrical Engineering > > > University of British Columbia > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > > of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > > the message > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message