Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:28:03 -0600 From: Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com> To: Collins <erichey2@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC fails - dc0: couldn't map ports.memory Message-ID: <20020324002328.OOOE1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there> In-Reply-To: <20020321202219.20661709.erichey2@attbi.com> References: <20020321202219.20661709.erichey2@attbi.com>
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On Thursday 21 March 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: Hi Collins, I too have a NIC labled as dc0. My NIC is a Linksys 10/100 Etherfast PCI card. What is yours? As you know, it makes a difference which NIC you choose in sysinstall. Your choice of using the Ne1k - Ne2k is correct for my card, but I don't know about yours. Please send the dmesg output in your next post. You probably know, but it helps me to remember by typing it out again: dmesg|grep dc0 HTH Mark > I had a functional FreeBSD 4.4 system running on my prior computer > (K6/II 300Mz), but now I've switched to a new computer (P3/800Mz) and I > can't get it to work. > > I tried 4.4 (even built my own kernel) and now 4.5 with the same > results. > > I have a multi-boot system. Win98 on Slice 1, FreeBSD on Slice 2, and > several Linux partitions on extend partitions on the disk. I use grub > to boot. > > Eveything about the FreeBSD install works perfectly, except my NIC card. > The card shows up as an ADMtek Commet rev 17. It is on IRQ 11 (shared > with USB). Linux drives the card with the "tulip" module, and it works > perfectly. > > During install I selected the Ne1K, Ne2K,.... driver, but the card was > not seen - I didn't get an ethernet choice for network configuration > (same results with 4.4 and 4.5. After boot of the GENERIC kernel, the > kernel produces messages dc0: couldn't map ports/memory > dc0 attach returned 6 > On 4.4 I tried compiling a kernel with the de driver (which advertises > to be a "tulip" driver, but the card doesn't even appear - no messages > at all. > > When I searched the archives for this message, no one had provided much > in the way of an answer. The only recommendation was to alter the BIOS > to Plug-and-Play NO. Unfortunately, my BIOS does not have such an > option. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Without a working NIC, I > can't get to my LAN and thus to the internet, so I would have to forget > about using FreeBSD. > > Thanks, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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