Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 22:33:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Ted Spradley <tsprad%perseverance@dal95.metronet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuring 3Com 3C590 Etherlink III PCI Message-ID: <199606150334.WAA00899@perseverance>
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I need some advice on configuring FreeBSD for a PCI-bus machine with a 3Com 3c590 Etherlink III. I've installed 2.1R on it, but now I have to build a kernel that understands the ATAPI CD-ROM drive and the PCI ethernet board. I've found pci/if_vx.c and if_vxreg.h in the -current sources. My questions are: 1. what do I put into my config file to specify that device? 2. can I expect to successfully add that device to a -stable kernel, or should I get all the -current sources and build a -current kernel? and 3. if I need a -current kernel, do I also need a -current userland? I'm hoping I can build something that will work with that ethernet board on my -stable machine, because I don't want to have to install all the sources on that machine. I suppose if I could wait until the next CD-ROM release comes out it would have the driver.... -- Ted Spradley tsprad@metronet.com Information tends to drive out knowledge. [...] many people cannot tell the difference between information and knowledge, not to mention wisdom, which even knowledge tends sometimes to drive out. -Heinz Pagels
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