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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:14:52 -0700
From:      "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bko@idiom.com>
To:        lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ethernet card not recognized
Message-ID:  <200204230814.g3N8Eq2m064162@baz.fake.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <1019241922.285.0.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>
References:  <20020419183507.26173.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> <1019241922.285.0.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>

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> Vinod,
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>   Hi.  Are you sure that you have either a) loaded the module with
> kldload or b) got it all going in your kernel config?
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> -lewiz.
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> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 20:35, Vinod wrote:
>> I had a windows machine with an SMC1211TX ethernet
>> card.i just installed freebsd 4.5 release on
>> it,removing windows.but it doesnt seem to recognize
>> the card at all and there isnt a eth0 or fxp0
>> interface recognized.What needs to be done?isnt this
>> card supported.its a pretty common one,lil old though.
>> Thanks in advance,

Vinod:

You may already know this, but FreeBSD does not name all ethernet
devices the same device name (e.g. eth0) a la Linux.  So, might your
card be recognized under a different device name?

Also, if your card is ISA, you may need to manage the IRQs for it to
be detected.

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bryan k ogawa  <bko@idiom.com>   http://www.idiom.com/~bko/

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