From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 20: 4:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailtag.com (mailtag.com [207.250.237.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13A1015103 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from huppe@mailtag.com) Received: from chelseys.ne.mediaone.net ([24.218.165.207]) by mailtag.com (wcSMTP [447]) with SMTP id 197216312; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 03:04:37 GMT Message-ID: <380A9C7E.B7A853D2@mailtag.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:05:18 -0500 From: Len Huppe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ATeslik@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c905c-tx-m NIC References: <0.b0ac45a6.253be47e@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ATeslik@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, > > So, I went and returned that Linksys LNE100TXII NIC and bought a 3Com > 3C905C-TX-M NIC instead. It seems to have been a bad move because when I > compile "xl" into my kernel, the card doesn't even show up during boot. > Again, the dos diags that came with it have no problem seeing it, but FreeBSD > can't. This is getting really old really fast. Plug and Play in the bios is > set to auto, then I tried manual, then I tried recompiling my kernel, then I > read all the archives, then searched up and down for a driver. Nothing. Does > anyone have this card and have success using it? It doesn't even come up! > Grrrrrr. > > Alex What exactly are you entering into your kernel config file for the nic? If you have "device xl" as you stated above, change it to "device xl0". I'm running two 3C905's in my proxy system and they work just fine. To do that I added two devices to my kernel config: xl0 and xl1. I also have plug and pray disabled in my BIOS. I *never* use pnp. Len Huppe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message