Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:31:38 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network card help needed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004182221510.21779-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <000419000754BP.25988@weba1.iname.net>
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Please format your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters or so. big-sky@altavista.net wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > error comes back saying > ed0 - no such device name > > This got me thinking about dc0. ls /dev/dc0 and came back no such > file. dc0 works fine, but where is its device name? In the kernel. You won't find a device node for a NIC in /dev because /dev only contains links to block or character devices. > What am I doing wrong? > > This machine was running 3.2 and the devices were pn0 and ed0 and > worked. The hard drive failed so I bought a new drive and installed > 4.0. pn0 has indeed moved under the more generic banner of dc0 in 4.0 and -CURRENT. Perhaps you didn't configure your kernel correctly, or perhaps your chipset is non-standard? I have several Bay Networks FA310TX (Lite-On chipsets) and these work fine with dc0. I don't know about your specific card, though. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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