Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:18:40 -0700 From: Hampton Maxwell <maxwell@101freeway.com> To: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE support DEC/INTEL 21041? Message-ID: <3905D370.134525C7@101freeway.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004210022040.25898-100000@sure.surfnet.nl>
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Ronald van der Pol wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > The kernel meesages say: > > > de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 > > > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > > > > > What does this mean? Is this card supported? > > > > It means the driver has not yet been changed to accomodate some changes in > > the driver API but runs in compatibility mode. This is a sort of reminder to > > the driver maintainer[s]. Not to worry.. > > Hmm, but it does not seem to work: > $ ifconfig de0 inet up > ifconfig: interface de0 does not exist > > rvdp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Try doing a ./MAKEDEV de0 in the /dev directory. That may solve it. Hampton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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