From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 06:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 06:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.transport.gecalsthom.com [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07516 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 06:52:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id QAA06011; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:45:13 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA27013; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:44:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA11398; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:25:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05667; Thu, 19 Nov 98 15:28:29 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA146555274; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:21:14 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 98 15:14:33 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3650FDA1.A5F6ED6A@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: de0 ethernet driver -- another puzzle Mime-Version: 1.0 To: spamoff@tampabay.rr.com Cc: kaleb@ics.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > > I'm confused (as usual). > > > > I bought a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II after checking the Handbook to > > see if it was supported. > > Great card...ne2000 clone the correct device driver for NE2000 NICs is "ed" (not "de") I've installed recently such a beast (PCI version). The kernel found it automatically (I assume PCI boards are really Plug'n Play - except when you are toying with AGP. I included in kernel config file the ed driver as an ISA board, though) and calls it "ed1" TfH > > > > > > > > The Handbook say this NIC is based on the DEC DC21xxx. > > > > The Handbook and the LINT kernel config say to use de0 for DEC DC21xxx > > NICs. > > > > So I configured a new kernel with the de0 device, built, installed, > > rebooted ---- and nada. No probe, no nothing. > > Make sure the card is set for 0x280 and IRQ=9 using the supplied software. Use > a dos boot disk and run 'setup'. > > Once configure and save FreeBsd will see it. > > All Linux and BSD probes are very limited. They look in a certain address > range, that's why they don't find stuff in different address ranges. > > > > > > > > The kernel config created /usr/src/sys/compile/mumble/de.h, which > > contains "#define NDE 1"; but I grepped over the entire kernel source > > for "de.h" and NDE, and found not a single occurance of either. > > > > I grepped the FAQ and the Handbook for more, but found nothing. Where is > > the support for this device? > > > > This is on 3.0-RELEASE (x86). > > > > (I subscribe to hackers, not questions, so if the question is answered > > in questions, please either cc hackers or me directly, whichever is more > > appropriate. Thanks.) > > > > Thanks in advance. > > I preset all my cards and they are found O.K. so try it. Let us know how it > goes :) > > Regards...Martin > > > > > > > -- > > Kaleb > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message