From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 2:39: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7FC14D74 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 02:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04444; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:37:35 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 49F74C4; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:37:39 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:37:39 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles w/ DLINK DFE-530TX NIC Message-ID: <19990804123739.A11696@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:10:39PM -0600 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:10:39PM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote: > I recently had my NE2000 clone NIC bite the dust. I recently bought a > DLINK DFE-530TX as the campus bookstore had them for $30 and I knew they > were supported. I picked one up, recompiled and installed a kernel with > vr0 support, then shutdown, put the new NIC in a PCI slot (after removing > the old card) and rebooted. I'm running 3.2-STABLE. > > The problem I'm having is that the NIC is not being found on bootup. The > old card was configured as an ed1 (although it was the only NIC installed > - I bought the system pre-built w/ FreeBSD-2.1.7). I wondered then if I > shouldn't configure the NIC to be vr1 - I rebuilt a kernel w/ support for > both vr0 and vr1 support and tried again. Still no luck. Haven't had any problems with these cards, even having multiple of these on one machine. Do you have something called "PnP OS installed" in your BIOS? Set it to disabled state, per Bill Paul's suggestion. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message