Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:06:30 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: John <papalia@udel.edu> Cc: schilling <schilling@home.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP!! Message-ID: <3868FC26.A803B50C@3-cities.com> References: <4.1.19991228125230.009de100@mail.udel.edu>
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John wrote: > > Have you gone through the steps of building yourself a custom kernel? Or > have you just used the Generic one? If you bought "The Complete FreeBSD" > there's a good section in there on building a custom kernel. If not, in > the online handbook there's info at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > In the end run, did you include support for your new ethernet card in your > kernel, recompile & reinstall the kernel? According to the LINT file > (typically in /sys/i386/conf), you need the following: > > device ex0 at isa? port? net irq? Check the HARDWARE.TXT for the "ie0" device. That seems to cover his NIC. The ex0 is an EtherExpress Pro 10 and not an EtherExpress 16. Kent > > Since I haven't played with many ISA devices, I'm not sure if you'll need > more information included or not. Since it seems like you had an ethernet > card previously installed, I'm assuming that you have the following line > already included in your kernel? : > > pseudo-device ether > > If you haven't already built your custom kernel, you really need to do that > first. Start by copying the GENERIC file and editing that to your needs, > pulling in any information from the LINT file that you need. > > Hope that helps.... > --John Papalia > > >Please someone help me out a little bit here > >First of all: i'm a newbie ! > >I recently installed 3.2-release ... > >Now i've changed my nic and i can't really > >get it working .... > >How and "where" do i tell my system to use > >the new nic ... > >The nic is an Intel Etherexpress 16 ISA ... > >Port now: 300 IRQ now: 3 > > > >Please help > > > >/schilling > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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