Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:46:02 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Stephen Schadt <sschadt@openlinksw.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> Subject: Re: network / configuration problems Message-ID: <19991112174602.A7524@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <004c01bf2d75$dbc1adb0$84f2e926@openlinksw.com>; from sschadt@openlinksw.com on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:24:41PM -0500 References: <004c01bf2d75$dbc1adb0$84f2e926@openlinksw.com>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:24:41PM -0500, Stephen Schadt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm following your book "The Complete FreeBSD" and have successfully
> installed the system. Now I'm trying to get a network connection. I have
> configured the Networking ~ Interfaces screen according to my network
> environment via /stand/sysinstall.
>
> Typing "ifconfig xl0" returns the name of my card, etc, so I know the 3Com
> 3c905 card we have is being seen on that device.
That sounds like it's working correctly.
> Page 103 of the book has a section titled "Can't see 3Com PCMCIA board", and
> it seems to indicate that it might be necessary to configure the kernel to
> see the board at the appropriate IRQ / IOmem address, etc. (but if ifconfig
> finds it this shouldn't be the case...) In any case, I was unsuccessful
> doing this. I modified the GENERIC kernel configuration file by entering
> one line:
> device xl0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
> I had verified that those addresses / irq value were correct by using the
> disk 1 visual kernel configuration utility (what comes up after bootup
> before the install process begins).
This section does not apply to you. The 3c905 is a PCI card not a
PCMCIA card.
> Running the "make" failed with a driver not found related error. Then I
> tried commenting out the first appearance of "device xl0", where there was
> just a # comment after those words - same error on "make".
That sounds like you didn't run "make depend" as config tells you do do.
> Will a kernel configuration even be necessary here? Why didn't the
> sysinstall program make "xl0" my default network device?
It shouldn't be. PCI devices are automagicaly probed and configured.
Did you assign an IP address, etc. xl0 in sysinstall? If not then it's
not configured. What does "ifconfig xl0" say? Do you have any lines
beginning with ifconfig_xl0 in your /etc/rc.conf and if so, what are
they?
-- Brooks
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