From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 20:33:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDBC337B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA29212; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:33:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA11743; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:33:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11739; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:33:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:33:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Bill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop - 3com 10/100 ethernet pc card In-Reply-To: <001801c013bf$62571790$03180a0a@sthngtn1.ct.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This card is a carbus card and does not work just yet on the Dells, I just got a similar laptop with that card. It will however be supported soon. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Bill wrote: > I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 7500 Laptop, and installed FreeBSD 4.1 Release on it off a bootable CD. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction to getting this machine online. I need to figure out what the network card might be named, how to configure it (not sure if its listed in network config in /stand/sysinstall, and what daemons I may need running for the pc card to work. Thanks. > > > -Bill > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message