Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:37:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: sprint <M.Joling@caiw.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Message-ID: <19981230183718.Q32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981230075121.5406.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 05:51:20PM %2B1000 References: <000101be330e$1cd607a0$0901a8c0@spd15> <19981229211934.U32696@freebie.lemis.com> <19981230075121.5406.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Wednesday, 30 December 1998 at 17:51:20 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >>> I have a 3c509b ethernet card and during start up he says >>> no driver loaded. >> >> There's no such message from FreeBSD. > > There's certainly the moral equivalent of that message (at least > in 2.2.7). The message "[no driver assigned]" appears if a > network card is detected but there is no driver in the kernel. > In my case, I had a 3C900B which was not supported by the 2.2.7 > GENERIC kernel. (I fixed it by getting the "xl" driver and the > card is now working, apparently properly.) Ah, right. But `assigned' and `loaded' have such different connotations that I didn't twig. It's really important to supply the original message, and not a paraphrase. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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