From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 11:18:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21088 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:18:00 -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 LAA21083 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA06455; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:15:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606121815.LAA06455@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Network card compatibility To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:15:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, thomas@dcbru.be, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606120905.KAA03654@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jun 12, 96 10:05:26 am 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 > >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert writes: > > >> 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 ? > > Terry> 2) boot BSD -c. Use the "visual" mode to tell the if_le > Terry> (LANCE) ethernet driver the interrupt and base address. You > > It's the lnc driver not the le driver that supports the PCNet cards. Sorry; you're right, I got confused. The le driver is the name of the Lance driver in Ultrix, VMS, ISC UNIX, SCO UNIX, and Solaris UNIX. But not FreeBSD. 8-|. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.