From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 12:36: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil [141.190.102.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A634C37B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eADKaTi01592; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:36:29 -1000 From: Gary Dunn Reply-To: gdunn@mac.com Organization: Open Slate Project To: Alex Charalabidis , Cassiel Subject: Re: Are 3C509B's no longer in the install kernel! Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:31:59 -1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: stanb@panix.com, Free BSD Questions list References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00111310362902.01495@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Cassiel wrote: > > > At 07:54 PM 11/11/00 -0500, stanb@panix.com wrote: > > > I have been installing via ftp using 3COM 3C509B's (ISA) for a very > > > long time. > > > > > > Grabed the 4.1-RELEAS disks, and the don't seem to be in the > > > kernel any > > > more! Am I looking at this cross eyed? If not, how can I manage > > > to get > > > FreeBSD installed on a machine with one of thes, if it does not > > > have a > > > CD? > > > > Keep going . . . Why this is could be heard from whoever did the > > rewrite of such, or someone who has actually Looked at the current > > proceedure intead of just running it, but I have seen 3C509s not be in the > > list since the arrival of 4.0, and the install---and resulting networking > > capablility---work just fine . . . > > > To put it clearly, the ep driver (for the 3C509) is no longer an option > but on by default and it'll work without you doing anything. Don't ask me > why it was done or why it's apparently not documented in the release > notes. > > -ac > > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== Ah Ha! So that's why my Compaq server found it's Thunder-thingy NIC even though it was not a configurable option. I really stumbled over that (4.1.1). To even get going I had to disable all NICs (they all had conflict errors) so I assumed networking would be stillborn. Imagine my surprise when later the installer knew about my NIC. I would have to say that this is confusing. -- == Gary Dunn == Honolulu == Open Slate Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message