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Subject: Re: lnc problem with 4.9 as guest in VMWare
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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! :-(