Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:03:32 -0600 From: "Lawrence Kreitzer" <Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com> To: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: New Kernel Not Seeing NIC ? Message-ID: <sa22318b.076@AAHDQ01-GI1.aa.com>
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Hello everyone I am a newbie to Unix in general and FreeBSD in particular, but I have a lot of experience with all sorts of OS-es, dating back to the CDC-6400. vi is not so strange, believe it or not :) I recently bought BSD 4.1 Desktop Edition. The install worked just fine, as far as it went, it just didn't go far enough. I need to connect to my office network to do anything - print, surf, whatever - but I have an Olicom 3118 tokenring NIC in this box. The Complete FreeBSD book that came with the package was written for version 3.x and the CDs do not have the CVS on it (at least, I couldn't find it and I have looked for it pretty darn hard). Nonetheless, it covers most subjects well enough so that I can I generalize the info to my particular situation, I think. I understand that to get the Olicom working, I need to build new kernel. I created my own configuration file after studying LINT and starting with GENERIC. I think I have the correct files in the correct places. config, make depend, make and make install all work without any fatal or serious errors (an occasional warning comes up in make depend). My question is this (and perhaps it is better addressed to the tokenring list, but I thought I should start here, being a newbie) - when I boot, all the devices I have defined in the config come up, except for the Olicom. I get this instead >> unknown0: <Olicom Token-Ring ISA 16/4> at port 0xa00-0xa1f irq 3 drq1 on ISA0 Having browsed the tokenring mailing list archive, I have seen comments that the ISA cards have had support dropped, to be replaced later, when the PCI card drivers came out. I hope this is not the case and that instead I am doing something stupidly wrong. Conversely, must I do a MAKEDEV? (which I have already tried to no success, because the code doesn't have any references to oltr in it) or even a mknod ? If so, could someone provide me with the parameters for it ? I appreciate y'all (as they say down here in Texas) shedding some light on this for me. Thanks ! Lawrence Kreitzer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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