From owner-freebsd-net Wed Apr 17 13:13:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts23.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F327237B405 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.179.11]) by tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020417201336.TWCN22105.tomts23-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:13:36 -0400 Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (xena.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.3]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3HK27718807; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:02:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:02:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Mark Filipak Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello from Mark Filipak In-Reply-To: <3CBDC24D.3AF5B005@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Mark Filipak wrote: > Hello All! > > This is an introduction and a ping. > > I live in Mansfield, Ohio, USA, and have some very specific problems and questions. The first should probably be whether this is the right list for me.... so.... > > I just installed GallantWEB. It is a pre-configured version of FreeBSD 3.3 that acts as a gateway/firewall/server. It is up and running but doesn't recognize my D-Link DFE-530TX+ ethernet cards. > > What I have to work with > ======================== > I have the full FreeBSD 3.3 distribution (6 discs) from Walnut Creek. > > I have C source code and makefile for the D-Link DFE-530TX+ ethernet > card. It was written for Linux. The name of the driver source code is > Rtl8139.C. > > I have Greg Lehey's book: "The Complete FreeBSD". > > I also have the full FreeBSD 4.0 distribution (4 discs) from Walnut > Creek, but I don't want to tackle that right now and would like to get > 3.3 fully functional first. The DFE-530TX+ driver was first supported in FreeBSD 4.4. You'll inflict the least amount of pain if you just get a copy of FreeBSD 4.4 or 4.5. You might be able to backfit this driver to FreeBSD 4.0 -- I've successfully done it for 4.2 and 4.3. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message