From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 26 11:27: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uranus.interscope.ro (unknown [193.226.188.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C7037B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 11:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by URANUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: From: Stefan KORONKA To: 'Lawrence Kreitzer' Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Need New Kernel Help Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:24:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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