Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:37:39 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles w/ DLINK DFE-530TX NIC Message-ID: <19990804123739.A11696@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908031257350.17594-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:10:39PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908031257350.17594-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:10:39PM -0600, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> 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
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