From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 19:34:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2951A37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCED043F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:34:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EB2A851991; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:04:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:04:32 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Michael Graffam Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030206033432.GM72435@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030206023743.GK72435@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 22:18:50 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I wish it were so. I have an NE2K compatible NIC >> >> Heh. I was going to suggest exactly that. > > :) Yeah, NE2K compatible NICs have always done right by me. But this one > is pretty obscure: its an 'Argosy EN-210' NIC. Hmm, this could be a simple problem to solve. What version of FreeBSD are you using? >> What problem do you have with (Free)BSD? > > It just doesn't configure the NE2K pc card -- doesn't assign an > ethernet device to it, but it does so for the 3com. What appears in dmesg and /var/log/messages? >>> I guess I'll try a clearance Xircom I saw and cross my fingers. >> >> Don't do that until you know what the problem is. > > I suspect that *BSD would work if it correctly identified the card as NE2K > compatible and just tried to do it. We call it FreeBSD or BSD, not *BSD. > Any way I can force that? Depends on the version you're running. I suspect I know a way if you're running 4.x. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message