Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:28:32 -0600 From: "Jeremy Novak" <pr0cy0n@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: getting a pcmcia ethernet card to work in FreeBSD Message-ID: <000201c0f2a4$51aca080$356b0441@boise1.id.home.com>
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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
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