Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:05:34 -0500 (EST) From: root <root@jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys NIC, was: Re: de ethernet driver -- another puzzle Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811241904440.4151-100000@jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu> In-Reply-To: <365ACE9F.8566C16B@ics.com>
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Out of curiosity, If I have a Linksys NIC and want to do a FTP install of
FreeBSD, how would I go about it since support isnt config'ed into the
kernel
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> >
> > >>> I also now know why the de probe doesn't print out a message when the
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >>> probe fails. Which is not to say that I think that's good. On the
> > >>> contrary, I think it's bad. C'est la vie.
> > >> Printing out an error message when a PCI match fails would be stupid;
>
> Yup; but then I said as much.
>
> > >> every PCI device is (currently) presented to every PCI driver until one
> > >> claims it. Printing a message when the match failed ("no, not for me")
> > >> would produce a useless spew of garbage.
> > > You need a pseudo-device at the end of the inquiry chain to catch
> > > id's that haven't been caught by the real drivers, and to print
> > > out a message ("PCI: no driver: id xxx ...").
> >
> > That's catching the wrong set.
>
> Yes and no.
>
> > Kaleb wanted the to know the drivers without cards.
>
> Not really. I wanted to know why the de driver wasn't recognizing my
> NIC. According to the FAQ and the Handbook it is supposed to be the
> driver for my card. Turns out it's not, but there ought to be a better
> way to discover this than by sprinkling the kernel with printfs, or
> try-each-one-until-one-succeeds, or
> turn-everything-on-to-discover-which-it-is.
>
> > You're giving us the set of cards without drivers.
> > (This is also possibly a useful set, but not what kaleb wanted.)
>
> Seems to me -- from the cursory look-see that I took while figuring out
> my card -- that the PCI ethernet stuff could be unified into something
> like a single pci (pseudo?) ethernet device. That could be fun to hack
> on.
>
>
> --
> Kaleb
>
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