From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 5 08:36:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06396 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06384 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA22952; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805051526.IAA22952@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:26:05 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 May 1998 14:53:23 +0300 (EET DST) Evren Yurtesen wrote: > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr > > from kernel configuration it does not assign a driver for the ethernet > card... > why is this happening? Because FreeBSD doesn't have a flexible autoconfiguration system, so they require hacks that glue drivers for PCI devices which are similar to ISA devices to the ISA drivers themselves. We addressed this in NetBSD ... quite some time ago. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 415 428 6939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message