From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 22: 4:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.equinox.net (relay02.equinox.net [204.89.131.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0528437B402 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:04:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from usr53-dialup238.mix2.boston.cw.net ([166.62.199.244] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by relay02.equinox.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14GxJu-00003v-00; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:04:15 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:05:18 -0500 Subject: Re: 3.5.1 and Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 From: Drew Linsalata To: Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doh! Greg's book just answered my question. My guess is that I am inadvertently disabling the pn driver in UserConfig. I'll have to check on that tomorrow. I should know better after 100 or more FreeBSD installs! (-: - Drew > From: Drew Linsalata > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:00:19 -0500 > To: Kelly Hendrix > Cc: > Subject: Re: 3.5.1 and Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 > > Hi Kelly, > > You are right, according to the GENERIC config file, its the pn driver that > should be used for PNIC cards like the LNE100TX. So, the next silly > question is how to get the kernel to stop using the wrong (al) driver. This > is not a working system, just a clean install during which the kernel is > defaulting to the al driver. > > Any hints? > > - Drew > > >> Greetings :) >> >> If I'm not mistaken, you're using the wrong driver for the LNE100TX. In >> 3.X you need to add device ln0 to your kernel config to use this and other >> PNIC based cards. I'm not completely sure about this because I don't have >> a GENERIC or LINT config file lying around from the 3.X branch, so you'll >> need to check for yourself to see if that is the case. >> >> Kelly >> >> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Drew Linsalata wrote: >> >>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:25:27 -0500 >>> From: Drew Linsalata >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: 3.5.1 and Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> After wrestling quite unsuccessfuly with the new ad driver in 4.x, I decided >>> to go back to a 3.x release to get my two WD 18G IDE drives working >>> correctly. Now my LNE100TX (version 4.1) is coming up with a bogus MAC >>> address ff:ff:ff:ff at boot time using the al driver. >>> >>> I've got PnP disabled in the BIOS and see no IO/IRQ conflicts. Before I >>> replace the NIC (I'd really like to standardize on these), has anyone found >>> a solution for this? >>> >>> The system is 3.5.1-RELEASE, if it matters at all. >>> >>> - Drew >>> >>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message