From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 19:54:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16137 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16128; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA22563; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:54:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:54:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Luis Munoz cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 905B-TX on a Compaq In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980514165055.00793c30@pop.cantv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Luis Munoz wrote: > - Servers: Compaq Proliant 1600R w/256M RAM, external RAID arrays > - SCSI: 2 Adaptec 2944UW. Built-in NCR controllers are disabled. > - NICs: 2 3Com 905B-TX FastEtherLink III 10/100. Built-in 10/100 NIC is > disabled. > - O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE If this builtin card is a ThunderLan you should grab Bill Paul's elite new driver which he seems to have worked nearl all the bugs out of. (I'll let him elaborate.) > (2) The 3Com card is not recognized. I went in and modified if_vx_pci.c > to add this board-id to it, and then the machine would hang > whenever there was a packet in the network. This is the relevant > boot -v info Jordan (I believe) mentioned the lack of support for the 905B. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message