Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:28:22 +0200 From: "Steven Swart" <steven@inloco.co.za> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD not recognising network card Message-ID: <009801c415aa$da8f6230$0100a8c0@steven>
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Hi all Although not exactly a newbie to FreeBSD, I have been pulling my hair out over an installation that I have been doing. I have installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on a machine I inherited. I know all the hardware is fine because it was running Windows NT Workstation when I got it. Opening the case reveals a PCI network card. On the card chip is written 'Madge K2 RingRunner', which is the only identification I have for this piece of hardware. My problem is that the FreeBSD installer does not pick up any ethernet cards. The only network interfaces I can configure are the loopback interface and the SLIP/PPP interfaces for the COM ports. I have read Chapter 6.8 'Setting Up Network Interface Cards' in the FreeBSD Handbook which tells me to look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for a list of network interfaces. No LINT file exists in this path. The other thing the Handbook advises is loading the kernel module for the driver with kldload, something I have tried without success, firstly because I don't know which kernel modules are network drivers and secondly, the ones I did try to load gave me an 'Already Loaded' message. One last thing I tried was to run UserConfig, the boot time kernel configurator. Previous versions of FreeBSD I have installed had a device driver selection utility, configured via a text based menu system. It appears to be missing in 5.2.1. I created a file /boot.config, with one line '0:ad(0,a)/kernel -c'. This does not run UserConfig, I only succeed in locking myself into the boot program, with no idea how to get the OS to boot. One line from my dmesg output that may provide a clue: pci0: <network, token ring> at device 9.0 (no driver attached) I know this seems like a rank newbie post but any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, Steven --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.642 / Virus Database: 410 - Release Date: 29/03/2004
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