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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In localhost.freebsd.questions, you wrote: > This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your > E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. > > --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-4584-1019241912-0001-2 > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Vinod, > > Hi. Are you sure that you have either a) loaded the module with > kldload or b) got it all going in your kernel config? > > -lewiz. > > 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. -- bryan k ogawa <bko@idiom.com> http://www.idiom.com/~bko/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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