From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 23: 2:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9279437B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAC74sa00997; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:04:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:04:54 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Cassiel Cc: stanb@panix.com, Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Are 3C509B's no longer in the install kernel! In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.1.20001111221237.00e2da20@mail.dis.org> 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 On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Cassiel wrote: > At 07:54 PM 11/11/00 -0500, stanb@panix.com wrote: > > I have been installing via ftp using 3COM 3C509B's (ISA) for a very > > long time. > > > > Grabed the 4.1-RELEAS disks, and the don't seem to be in the > > kernel any > > more! Am I looking at this cross eyed? If not, how can I manage > > to get > > FreeBSD installed on a machine with one of thes, if it does not > > have a > > CD? > > Keep going . . . Why this is could be heard from whoever did the > rewrite of such, or someone who has actually Looked at the current > proceedure intead of just running it, but I have seen 3C509s not be in the > list since the arrival of 4.0, and the install---and resulting networking > capablility---work just fine . . . > To put it clearly, the ep driver (for the 3C509) is no longer an option but on by default and it'll work without you doing anything. Don't ask me why it was done or why it's apparently not documented in the release notes. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message