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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 12:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Wright <mcw@grove.ufl.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FDDI/DEFPA in 4.3
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0105301058130.4930-100000@willow>

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Help! I don't know how to make my FDDI card functional in version 4.3.  
I've just installed version 4.3 and reconfigured the kernel with "device
fpa" and "pseudodevice fddi".  Here's what I see:

	1.  At boot time, the card is detected as device "fpa0":

		fpa0: <Digital ...> 
		   irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0

		fpa0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims

	2.  It's impossible to get ifconfig to do anything with
	device fpa0.  It always says:

		ifconfig: interface fpa0 does not exist

	3.  If I enter "ifconfig -l", it lists my Ethernet device
	and others, but not fpa0

	4.  Other network interfaces have a module in /modules,
	but there is no "if_fpa.ko" file.

	5.  Nothing for fpa in /dev either, MAKEDEV doesn't know how
	to make it, and no mention of fpa in the list of known
	major numbers in /usr/src/sys/conf/majors.

It looks like there's a list of known network interfaces in the kernel.  
I assume the list is built when the kernel is loaded.  Maybe there's some
way to add fpa0 to the list of network interfaces, but I don't know what
that is.

Mike Wright
University of Florida
mcw@ufl.edu


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