Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, insanc@cc.gatech.edu Subject: Re: 3com and versa ethernet cards Message-ID: <200107180912.CAA25291@tantivy.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107172236300.7170-100000@felix.cc.gatech.edu>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joseph Holland King <insanc@cc.gatech.edu>
> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: 3com and versa ethernet cards
>
> 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
is this a VESA bus card? I'm not sure that VESA bus NIC's are supported.
Also, there was a PR filed a few months ago against the lnc driver and
pcnet-ISA chipsets.. the number escapes me, but it was filed by doug ambrisko,
and he has a patch on his webpage (www.ambrisko.com/doug/airport).
The patch dosen't apply cleanly for some reason, but is easy enough to apply
by hand.
> 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.
>
> --
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> | conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His
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