From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 6:34:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mserv1d.vianw.co.uk (mserv1d.vianw.co.uk [195.102.240.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F87E37B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 06:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jegan@jegan.com) Received: from [195.102.196.144] (helo=new98) by mserv1d.vianw.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.22 #5) id 14vJFb-0002EK-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 03 May 2001 14:34:35 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (HELO=new98.jegan.com) by new98 (All-Mail MTA); 03 May 2001 14:33:32 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.1.20010503142449.00a4d3a0@localhost> X-Sender: ceganjaa@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 14:33:31 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: James Egan Subject: RE: NIC recognition problem In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010503103836.00a43420@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you have to add anything to the generic kernel to get it to work? Someone told me that the error message meant that miibus wasn't in my kernel but everything I've looked at says it's already in the generic kernel which I'm using. Which version of FreeBSD are you running? Is the NIC sharing an interrupt with anything else? Thanks Jim. >i have same card, works without problems > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James Egan >Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:43 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: NIC recognition problem > > >Hello, > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.1 and have run into problems trying to >get my network card recognised. > >It's actually a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adaptor (Rev B) >which according to the hardware readme should be auto configured as >vr0 > >It was originally allocated irq9 which I thought was the problem but >having fiddled with the cmos setup it's now on irq12 but the problem >is the same. > >This is what /var/log/messages says :- > >/kernel: vr0: port 0xe400-0xe4ff >mem 0xd000000-0xd0000ff irq12 at device 16.0 on pci0 > >/kernel: vr0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > >/kernel: vr0: MII without any phy! > >/kernel: device_probe_and_attach: vr0 attach returned 6 > > >Then it moves onto other devices. > >I'm currently using the generic kernel which includes support for vr0 and >miibus. > >Can anyone tell me what's wrong? This network card works fine in >win98. It's mac address is 00-50-BA-EA-12-F1 > > > >Jim. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------------------------------- James Egan Flat #2 22 Belmont Road Harrogate HG2 0LR North Yorkshire UK Tel +44 (0)1423 562321 (Tel/Fax) Tel +44 (0)7960 501168 (Mobile) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message