From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 9:18:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from motgate3.mot.com (motgate3.mot.com [144.189.100.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A2237B401 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: [from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate3.mot.com (motgate3 2.1) with ESMTP id JAA28817 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:09:58 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from il75exm04.cig.mot.com ([136.182.110.113]) by pobox.mot.com (MOT-pobox 2.0) with ESMTP id JAA06534 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:18:30 -0700 (MST)] Received: by IL75EXM04 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) id <4K0B2H04>; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:18:29 -0500 Message-ID: <796456A0F96AD511A0AC009027B0F7412D07C1@IL27EXM08.cig.mot.com> From: Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 To: Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Is this network card supported? Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:18:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Please help me to know, if this 3COM 3C918 Ethernet card is supported by FreeBSD. Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks Venki > -----Original Message----- > From: Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:48 AM > To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: Is this network card supported? > > Hello, > > I have freeBSD 4.2. I tried to install it on my DELL laptop. This laptop > has 3COM 3C918 Network card. When I boot the laptop using freeBSD CD ROM, > it boots and brings up the installation menu. Then the keyboard does not > work to select any menu options. Any idea what is the reason? > > I tried removing the Network card and am able to boot and install FreeBSD > successfully. If I shutdown and reboot everything is fine including > keyboard. But when I try to boot with network card, it stops after a > message something like "Mounting ....." and nothing works after this. Only > option is to power off and remove the network card before power on. > > Then I checked the list of network cards supported by FreeBSD 4.2, and > found that, 3COM 3C918 is not be supported. Please let me know if so, or > guide me which version of FreeBSD supports this network card? > > Thanks in advance. > > Thank you > Venki To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message