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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:24:02 -0500
To: "Steven Swart" <steven@inloco.co.za>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD not recognising network card
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At 6:28 PM +0200 2004/03/29, Steven Swart wrote:

>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.

>One line from my dmesg output that may provide a clue:
>pci0: <network, token ring> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)

Steven,

	Madge made Token Ring cards. Token Ring is an IBM-supported 
alternative to Ethernet. I don't know if FreeBSD supports that card 
at all, but if you want to use it on an Ethernet, get an Ethernet 
card.


						Chris Pepper
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