Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:48:36 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= <andre@netvision.com.br> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lnc problem with 4.9 as guest in VMWare Message-ID: <407D6B64.1080909@netvision.com.br> In-Reply-To: <407D5069.5020709@netvision.com.br> References: <407D5069.5020709@netvision.com.br>
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André wrote: > > I've gotten a P4 1.5Ghz with Win Server 2003 and VMWare 4.5.1. As the > guest OS in VMWare I installed FreeBSD 4.9, and am using the GENERIC > kernel. The problem is that the network card does not appear in ifconfig. > dmesg has the following to say about the network card in VMWare: > > lnc0: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> port 0x1080-0x10ff irq 10 at device > 17.0 on pci0 > lnc0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > but "ifconfig -a" does not show the lnc interface. > What could cause FreeBSD to see the network card (as seen in the > dmesg output) but ifconfig not to show it? > > I'm downloading FreeBSD 4.10-BETA and 5.2.1 right now. I'll send > another email if any of those versions work. Sorry about the noise, I just realized that the kernel is not in sync with world. And now I can't believe the amount of time I spent on this! :-(
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