Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:36:41 -0500 From: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles w/ DLINK DFE-530TX NIC Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990803213641.00fec940@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908031257350.17594-100000@peloton.physics.m ontana.edu>
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I recently did the same replacement on three machines, and had the same/similar problem on one of them. go back to the kernel compile directory and do a 'make clean' and a 'make depend' then rebuild your kernel. it worked for me, hopefully you'll get the same results. -Steve At 01:10 PM 8/3/99 -0600, Brett Taylor wrote: >Hi, > >I recently had my NE2000 clone NIC bite the dust. I recently bought a >DLINK DFE-530TX as the campus bookstore had them for $30 and I knew they >were supported. I picked one up, recompiled and installed a kernel with >vr0 support, then shutdown, put the new NIC in a PCI slot (after removing >the old card) and rebooted. I'm running 3.2-STABLE. > >The problem I'm having is that the NIC is not being found on bootup. The >old card was configured as an ed1 (although it was the only NIC installed >- I bought the system pre-built w/ FreeBSD-2.1.7). I wondered then if I >shouldn't configure the NIC to be vr1 - I rebuilt a kernel w/ support for >both vr0 and vr1 support and tried again. Still no luck. > >Does anyone have any experience using this card? I'm using an >ASUS-P155TPT4 motherboard. I've read through LINT and the only thing I >saw to add to the kernel was vr0 (I already have pnp0 compiled in). > >Brett >*********************************************************** >Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * > brett@daemonnews.org * > * > http://www.daemonnews.org/ * >*********************************************************** > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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