From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 08:21:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01922 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.guard.ncsc.mil (guardian.guard.ncsc.mil [144.51.52.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01913 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by guardian.guard.ncsc.mil (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA23101; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:20:28 -0400 Received: from depot(144.51.53.1) by guardian via smap (V1.3) id sma023096; Fri Jul 19 11:20:13 1996 Received: from smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil (smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil [144.51.54.211]) by depot.missi.ncsc.mil (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA20955; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:16:47 -0400 Received: by smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil with Microsoft Mail id <31EFD1FA@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil>; Fri, 19 Jul 96 11:20:42 PDT From: "Paisley, Todd G." To: Doug White , "Paisley, Todd G." Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 11:18:00 PDT Message-ID: <31EFD1FA@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil> Encoding: 42 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I must have VIRTUAL plug & play then. It never found the ethernet card. We upgraded the video and SCSI card to PCI as well and during the boot up, it finds these cards just fine, but not the 3Com card. Todd. ---------- From: Doug White To: Paisley, Todd G. Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card Date: Thursday, July 18, 1996 9:05PM Return-Path: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:05:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Paisley, Todd G." cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card In-Reply-To: <31EEC57F@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Paisley, Todd G. wrote: > > Ooops! My fingers weren't working right. I meant 3Com 3C590 PCI ethernet > card, not a 3C509 ISA card. I don't know how to set up a PCI card with > Unix. Heh. That is much easier: just plug it in. The PCI bus implements REAL plug & play. It'll be found and configured on startup. If you need to make IRQ changes, you do that through BIOS setup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major