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 :)=20 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. =20 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=20 >> 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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