From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 13:33: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABC137B43F for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tp770z ([24.17.10.234]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000820203258.OCDW1060.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@tp770z>; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:32:58 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Bill McMilleon" To: "'Eric Ogren'" , Subject: RE: What happened to 3c589/3c509 install support? Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:32:53 -0500 Message-ID: <000c01c00ae5$d3101910$6401a8c0@tp770z> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <20000819152223.A983@earthlink.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So what should I do? I have an IBM ValuePoint 486/66 that does not find the 3c509 I've placed in it. I also have a ThinkPad 770Z that doesn't seem to locate the 3c589 PC Card NIC I have in it. In both cases, choosing to do a network-based install leaves me at a screen where I have only two undesireable choices: slip and ppp. --Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Eric Ogren > The "ep" driver now auto-detects the settings from the card, > which is why > you don't see it in the userconfig screen anymore. I > installed 4.1-RELEASE > using FTP with a 3c509 card just this Thursday, so the ep driver is > definitely still part of the install kernel. > > Eric > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 10:25:27AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > Bill McMilleon wrote: > > > > > > I've used both my 3c509 ISA NIC and my 3c589 PC Card NIC > to easily install > > > FreeBSD before (the 3.x series). Since 4.1 has been > released (maybe since > > > 4.0?) I've noticed that ep0 is no longer listed as a > supported Network > > > device during kernel configuration. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message