From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 11:30:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C27A37B40E for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pr0cy0n@home.com) Received: from c1456354a ([65.4.107.53]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010611183013.TNKS26560.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c1456354a> for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:30:13 -0700 From: "Jeremy Novak" To: Subject: getting a pcmcia ethernet card to work in FreeBSD Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:28:32 -0600 Message-ID: <000201c0f2a4$51aca080$356b0441@boise1.id.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal 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 Hi everyone. This is my dilema. I am setting up a compaq presario 1245 notebook with 4.2, the system has 32mb ram, AMD k-6 32x MHZ cpu, 4.2 GB HDD, a lousy winmodem. The pcmcia ethernet card is a SMC EZ PCCARD 10 (SMC8022). The brain teaser about all this is that I have had success getting the NIC to work just fine under Slackware 7.1, RedHat 6.2, 7.1, Mandrake 7.2, and Suse 7.1. The internet connection is with ATT@HOME using variations of dhcpcd/pump/dhclient, basicly whatever the particular distro uses for a dhcp client connection, and they all work. After doing 'a lot' of reading it looks like I will need to recompile the kernel and make a device node in /dev. The trouble is that after carefull review of LINT, and some man pages, I can't quite figure out what I should be calling the card in my new kernel, and what the correct procedure would be to make the device node in /dev. A kernel example with the correct entries would be most helpfull. If anyone has had a similar experience with this scenario I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that you may have. On a final note; if it helps anyone, it looks like this pcmcia ethernet card is the exact same card as the Novell NE2000, just a different label and box. Thanks in advance. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message