From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 20: 1:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F20D151D4 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA53729; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:31:43 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908030301.MAA53729@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 3c905 and 3c905B In-Reply-To: <37A64050.96A770CA@packetstream.com> from Sanjay Nayak at "Aug 2, 1999 06:05:22 pm" To: sanjay@packetstream.com Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:31:43 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello > I am trying to enable the multiple ethernet cards, in my FreeBsd box. > IF i have mix of 3com 3c905 and 3c905B. Only 3c905 card is commin up and > 3c905B is not. > > Istarted browing the code where the kernel actually probe the devices. > In the file if_vx_pci.c there is a probe routine. Based on the device > id passed to the routine , it returns the type of type of the device. In > my version of the kernel code , it never returns 3c905B, instead it > return NULL. > > The question i have is, is there any fresh version of the if_vx_pci.c > file which supports 3c905B 3com ethernet cards Which version of FreeBSD are you using? 3.1 and later (and probably earlier releases as well) detect my PCI 3c905B using the xl driver, e.g. xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 17 on pci0.16.0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:61:6d:b0 xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message