From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 15:38:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5707D37C45D for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@goodleaf.net) Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (clyde.goodleaf.net [192.168.0.2]) by clyde.goodleaf.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24905; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:52:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@goodleaf.net) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:52:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Goodleaf" To: legg@iastate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: 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 I believe the 3com 905 card works with the xl device. You should be fine without doing any extra work at all. I think this is even in the generic kernel. -John =============================== John Goodleaf goodleaf@goodleaf.net PGP key: finger goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net =============================== On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 legg@iastate.edu wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD. When I am setting up the hardware > immediately after inserting the mfsroot disk, I see my network card is not > on the list given to me. It is a 3Com 905-TX. > > I searched at 3Com and found that they have drivers for a wide range of > operating systems, Red Hat, Caldera, TurboLinux and SuSe, but not FreeBSD. > > Is the driver that works in those other operating systems able to operate > in FreeBSD and if so, how do I add it to the list of hardware that I > mentioned about earlier? If this driver doesn't work, does this mean that > I am better off using a different Linux/Unix that is compatible with the > driver? > > Timothy D Legg > > > > 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