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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:57:43 -0600 (CST)
From:      Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com>
To:        mac <mac.list@deam.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1001107155043.14951c-100000@y.cops.wamnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A0875C4.7EC85ECF@deam.org>

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Hello Mac,

In my experience, this means that the ethernet card/chipset is detected
but that it does not have a driver for it. Basically, you need to search
for a driver(or write one) to use the card/chipset. 

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Lee Carmichael		WAM!NET Inc.
System Engineer		655 Lone Oak Rd Building E
651-256-5292		Eagan, MN 55121

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, mac wrote:

> hi there,
> 
> i got a really strange problem with this KNE100TX from Kingston:
> de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> at device 11.0  on pci0
> de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims
> 
> that's the bootmessage (the dc-driver did not produce any information at
> boottime), but i can't attach ip-numbers on it. if a make a ifconfig -a
> the device is not listed.
> 
> die digital-chip on the card says: 21140-AF
> 
> could someone help me?
> 
> thanks in advance
> mac
> 
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