From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 18:05:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA08226 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:05:56 -0700 Received: from village.ios.com (village.ios.com [198.4.75.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA08221 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:05:53 -0700 From: sfinn@pobox.com Received: from 206.20.33.73 (ppp-1.ts-2.hp.idt.net [206.20.33.73]) by village.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA22189 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 21:03:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 21:03:22 -0400 Message-Id: <199510200103.VAA22189@village.ios.com> Subject: SMC EtherPower Help To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: AIR Mail 3.X (SPRY, Inc.) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk OK...after some pretty inspired recommendations on Ethernet adapters from you folks I went out and bought some SMC EtherPower cards for my three FreeBSD machines...I rebuilt the kernel including device de0, installed and rebooted and got this: de0 rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:18 reg20: virtual=0xf5c5700 physical=0xf0211000size=0x80 de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) (0000000000000000000000000000000000 0001010000c083be001e00000008 de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address unknown Anybody got a clue as to what is wrong? It appears to have the Ethernet address imbedded in the numeric string it barfs out, but it doesn't get it.....and neither do I.....HELP!!! -Shaun +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Shaun M. Finn | | Technocore Communications, Inc. FAX: (908)928-4505 | | P.O. Box 106 Email: sfinn@pobox.com | | Jackson, NJ 08527-0106 WWW: http://pobox.com/~sfinn | +----------------------------------------------------------------+