Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: "Steve Bernacki Jr." <steve@ziplink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Success w/ Hitachi VisionBook PRO Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630224044.20900G-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980630105551.11349E-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>
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If its a PCMCIA card, you might wanna try FreeBSD-PAO, available on
www.jp.freebsd.org. thats what I use on my laptop
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Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net
Systems Administrator Rush Networking
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Steve Bernacki Jr. wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I received a Hitachi VisionBook PRO from my employer yesterday. All
> excited, I downloaded the 2.2.7.1 boot floppy from freebsd.org and tried
> it out. Right before doing this, I booted into Windows and took note of
> the ethernet card: a "AMD PCNET family" card. I did a quick search of the
> mailing list archives and got wind that there has been limited success
> using this card with the Lance drivers (lnc). So, I booted the machine
> with the boot floppy and saw the following message:
>
> pci0:11: AND, device=0x2000, class=network (ethernet) int a irq 11 [no
> driver assigned]
>
> Grumble. It sees the hardware, but refuses to bind the lnc driver to it.
> My roomate has the same identical laptop running Redhat v4.2 with no
> problems -- it identifies the card as "PCNET/PCI-II 79C970A at 0xfcc0,
> assigned irq 11".
>
> This card appears to be kinda screwy, as it's identified as both "PCI &
> ISA" ("choose yer favorite bus!"). In some messages I've pulled up from
> the mailing list I've seen reference to both a lnc0 and lnc1 device;
> however, one can only configure lnc0 from from the Visual Configuration
> tool.
>
> So, my question is: has anyone had any sucess with this particular card
> and or laptop? I'd love to provide all the information I can if it'd help
> more, or please let me know if it's a lost cause. :) I'm not a hardware
> hacker but would be glad to help in anyway I can -- this is a very nice
> laptop otherwise.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -S
> --
> Steve Bernacki, Jr. |
> steve@ziplink.net |
>
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