From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 18 2:12:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tantivy.stanford.edu (tantivy.Stanford.EDU [171.64.234.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AEB37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.stanford.edu) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id CAA25291; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <200107180912.CAA25291@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, insanc@cc.gatech.edu Subject: Re: 3com and versa ethernet cards In-Reply-To: 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 > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:46:12 -0400 (EDT) > From: Joseph Holland King > 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. > > -- > 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 -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | kc6sxc@w6yx.ampr.org | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message