Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:26 +0200 From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> To: 'Lawrence Kreitzer' <Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Need New Kernel Help Message-ID: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202DA93@URANUS>
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In order to stop chating: you may want to try asking on questions@FreeBSD.org - that list is for technical questions. And for Doug: I like vi too .. stefan > Hello everyone > > I am a newbie to Unix in general and FreeBSD in particular, > but I have a lot of experience with all sorts of OS-es, > dating back to the CDC-6400. vi is not so strange, believe > it or not :) > > I recently bought BSD 4.1 Desktop Edition. The install > worked just fine, as far as it went, it just didn't go far > enough. I need to connect to my office network to do > anything - print, surf, whatever - but I have an Olicom 3118 > tokenring NIC in this box. > > The Complete FreeBSD book that came with the package was > written for version 3.x and the CDs do not have the CVS on it > (at least, I couldn't find it and I have looked for it pretty > darn hard). Nonetheless, it covers most subjects well enough > so that I can I generalize the info to my particular > situation, I think. > > I understand that to get the Olicom working, I need to build > new kernel. I created my own configuration file after > studying LINT and starting with GENERIC. I think I have the > correct files in the correct places. config, make depend, > make and make install all work without any fatal or serious > errors (an occasional warning comes up in make depend). > > My question is this (and perhaps it is better addressed to > the tokenring list, but I thought I should start here, being > a newbie) - when I boot, all the devices I have defined in > the config come up, except for the Olicom. I get this instead > > >> unknown0: <Olicom Token-Ring ISA 16/4> at port > 0xa00-0xa1f irq 3 drq1 on ISA0 > > Having browsed the tokenring mailing list archive, I have > seen comments that the ISA cards have had support dropped, to > be replaced later, when the PCI card drivers came out. I > hope this is not the case and that instead I am doing > something stupidly wrong. Conversely, must I do a MAKEDEV? > (which I have already tried to no success, because the code > doesn't have any references to oltr in it) or even a mknod ? > If so, could someone provide me with the parameters for it ? > > I appreciate y'all (as they say down here in Texas) shedding > some light on this for me. Thanks ! > > Lawrence Kreitzer > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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