Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: legg@iastate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007211401060.23149-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000721151129.31488A-100000@isua1.iastate.edu>
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The 3Com 3C905B and C should be auto-detected when the rest of the PCI devices are scanned. The device is ``xl'' and since it uses the MII bus, it will require any MII devices in the kernel (in case you choose to customize the kernel in any way). // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 legg@iastate.edu wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD. When I am setting up the hardware > immediately after inserting the mfsroot disk, I see my network card is not > on the list given to me. It is a 3Com 905-TX. > > I searched at 3Com and found that they have drivers for a wide range of > operating systems, Red Hat, Caldera, TurboLinux and SuSe, but not FreeBSD. > > Is the driver that works in those other operating systems able to operate > in FreeBSD and if so, how do I add it to the list of hardware that I > mentioned about earlier? If this driver doesn't work, does this mean that > I am better off using a different Linux/Unix that is compatible with the > driver? > > Timothy D Legg > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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