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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 16:52:41 -0400
From: Aaron Hillegass <ahill@classfinder.com>
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Subject: PCI Ethernet card sensed,  but I can't ifconfig the interface
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I have system with a DEC PCI Etherworks card that works perfectly.
I have a Hitachi laptop with an AMD PCNet PCI Ethernet card that I just
bought and can't get to talk to the ethernet.

Looking at the the working machine's kernel config file I noted the
following line:

  device de0

and in the /etc/rc.conf file the following:

  network_interfaces="de0 lo0"
  ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
  ifconfig_de0="inet 205.215.27.49"

Being a simple-minded guy,  I search the FreeBSD questions and found
that the PCNet ethernet card used the lnc driver.  Thus I substituted
lnc for de in both files:

  device lnc0

and

  network_interfaces="lnc0 lo0"
  ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
  ifconfig_lnc0="inet 205.215.27.51"

When I rebuild the kernel and boot the machine,  I get:

  Aug 3 20:28:49 toad /kernel: lnc1 <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adaptor> rev 22
int a irq 9 on pci0:18

Two things strike me as odd: First, it says lnc1 instead of lnc0. 
Second,  it doesn't mention its Ethernet address at all.

The ifconfig fails because it can't find lnc0.
So I try to manually ifconfig lnc1:

  # ifconfig lnc1 inet 215.205.27.51
  ifconfig:  interface lnc1 does not exist

In hopes of getting more data,  I boot the machine -c and remove the lnc
driver.  I get the following:

  Aug 3 20:28:49 toad /kernel: pci0:18:   AMD, device=0x2000,
class=network(ethernet) int a irq 9 [no driver assigned]

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Aaron Hillegass