From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 00:08:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17943 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:08:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17897 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 00:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA07842; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:37:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA36725; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:37:18 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981230183718.Q32696@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:37:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Black Cc: sprint , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network References: <000101be330e$1cd607a0$0901a8c0@spd15> <19981229211934.U32696@freebie.lemis.com> <19981230075121.5406.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981230075121.5406.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:51:20PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 30 December 1998 at 17:51:20 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >>> I have a 3c509b ethernet card and during start up he says >>> no driver loaded. >> >> There's no such message from FreeBSD. > > There's certainly the moral equivalent of that message (at least > in 2.2.7). The message "[no driver assigned]" appears if a > network card is detected but there is no driver in the kernel. > In my case, I had a 3C900B which was not supported by the 2.2.7 > GENERIC kernel. (I fixed it by getting the "xl" driver and the > card is now working, apparently properly.) Ah, right. But `assigned' and `loaded' have such different connotations that I didn't twig. It's really important to supply the original message, and not a paraphrase. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message