Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 13:52:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles w/ DLINK DFE-530TX NIC Message-ID: <37A7569E.228CCC97@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908031257350.17594-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently had my NE2000 clone NIC bite the dust. I recently bought a > DLINK DFE-530TX as the campus bookstore had them for $30 and I knew they > were supported. I picked one up, recompiled and installed a kernel with > vr0 support, then shutdown, put the new NIC in a PCI slot (after removing > the old card) and rebooted. I'm running 3.2-STABLE. > > The problem I'm having is that the NIC is not being found on bootup. The > old card was configured as an ed1 (although it was the only NIC installed > - I bought the system pre-built w/ FreeBSD-2.1.7). I wondered then if I > shouldn't configure the NIC to be vr1 - I rebuilt a kernel w/ support for > both vr0 and vr1 support and tried again. Still no luck. > > Does anyone have any experience using this card? I'm using an > ASUS-P155TPT4 motherboard. I've read through LINT and the only thing I > saw to add to the kernel was vr0 (I already have pnp0 compiled in). Did you remove ed1 from your /etc/rc.conf and add the vr0? Kent > > Brett > *********************************************************** > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * > brett@daemonnews.org * > * > http://www.daemonnews.org/ * > *********************************************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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