From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jun 21 14:33:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20534 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20524 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09433; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970621143359.53438@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:33:59 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Alexander Kjeldaas Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation detection of 3c589d References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Alexander Kjeldaas on Sat, Jun 21, 1997 at 11:55:40AM +0200 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alexander Kjeldaas scribbled this message on Jun 21: > I've tried to install FreeBSD on a laptop which has a 3com 3c589d > etherlink III adaptor. I've successfully booted linux on the machine and I > _know_ that linux detects the card at address 0x300 and uses irc 3. The > default freebsd installation disk uses irq 10 so I changed that to 3 just > in case. I've never installed FreeBSD so I might have misunderstood > something, but this is what I did. ok... FreeBSD does support it, but 2.2.2-R was released before the modified code to make the 3c589d was merged in... if you grab a copy off of releng22.freebsd.org you will be able to get it working... hope this helps... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD