From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 22:14:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18134 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.mel.aone.net.au (mail.mel.aone.net.au [203.12.176.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18128 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mel@Grammar.tgs.qld.edu.au) Received: from Grammar.tgs.qld.edu.au (grammar.tgs.qld.edu.au [203.61.197.130]) by mail.mel.aone.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19301 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:14:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from GRAMMAR/SpoolDir by Grammar.tgs.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.40); 18 Jul 98 15:18:53 +1100 Received: from SpoolDir by GRAMMAR (Mercury 1.40); 17 Jul 98 13:39:17 +1100 From: "Mario Melchiori" Organization: Townsville Grammar School To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:39:07 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: help...relative newbie Message-ID: <11AAC7E2706@Grammar.tgs.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ....tried to rebuild a new kernel which would recognise my network card..... its an intel etherpress..... the generic file didn't have a description of it ....and neither did the lint file..... however the handbook did.....I used it and proceeded to build the kernel with the appropriate commands..... well much later.....at the end of the make....before the make install.(last stage)....when loading the kernel ...it says....do not recognise ix driver etc....which is the one related to the card...?...error code 1.... i put back the old kernel and rebooted fine....but with no network card instructions......oobviously... any ideas greatly apreciated.... yes i did have option INET.......and psuedo-device ether.... the line of code i entered for the card was device ix0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 isoiz 32768 vector ixintr if needed....i could check the /var/log/messages or do it all again and take better note of the error messages.... thanks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message