From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 11:34:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA17615 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17610 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04077; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:32:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606111832.LAA04077@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Network card compatibility To: thomas@dcbru.be (Thomas Pedersen) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:32:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31BD5403.2371@dcbru.be> from "Thomas Pedersen" at Jun 11, 96 01:09:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am trying to install this great system but I seem to have run into > problems with regards to my network card. It's a ADM PCNET Family > Ethernet PCI adapter. Is there some way of making the installation > process and later FreeBSD recognise the network controller ? 1) Find out what IRQ and base address it is set to. You should have gottent a configuration floppy with your system, or it will be in one of the BIOS/CMOS setup screens. 2) boot BSD -c. Use the "visual" mode to tell the if_le (LANCE) ethernet driver the interrupt and base address. You may have to disable all uninstalled hardware, since the LANCE chipset is broken: it does not allow for a non-destructive probe. It's not broken otherwise, just in how you have to probe it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.