From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 17 19:46:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E82337B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insanc@cc.gatech.edu) Received: from felix.cc.gatech.edu (felix.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.107.11]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16342 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (insanc@localhost) by felix.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA08547 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Holland King To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: 3com and versa ethernet cards Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i have just been given a computer had two ethernet cards one being a:3com 3c509 and the second being a: vesa pcnet32. from what i have read (in the archives and the LINT file) both cards should be supported. and i have had no problem getting the 3com card recognised and working. however, i cannot get the pcnet32 to even be recognised. i have compiled the kernel with both the lnc0 and the pcn device (which according to lint one of these two should recognise it). however, i still have not been able to get it to work. i asked a similar question on questions and before being referred to here, the issue of compatiablity was brought up. i am assuming that the cards are since the person who gave me the computer had the two cards working in linux. thank you for any suggestions. -- Joseph Holland King | "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our | conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His | megaphone to rouse a deaf world." C. S. Lewis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message