Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:18:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Jason Myers <celest@mindspring.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Interface Card Driver Support?? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980903111454.22575B-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980903120752.00918b30@pop.internal.mindspring.com>
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> I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a machine that has a 3Com > 3C905B NIC. During the boot (from floppy) it detects the NIC, but says > that <No Driver was Installed (or used)>. It detects the PCI NIC on irq > 12. In the FreeBSD (revision 2) manual that I purchased from Walnut Creek, > it says that vx0 support the 3c9xx cards? But all the other documentation > I've found says nothing about the 3c9xx cards. Is this NIC supported by > FreeBSD at all? If not, when will it have support for it? The very lastest -stable snapshots have support for this card. I believe it was integrated early last week. You can find the latest snapshots at releng22.freebsd.org. The driver is named the xl driver. > Also, on install from the boot floppy, choosing -cv from the boot option. > going into the userconfig and removing all the CONF entries and modifying > to the correct hardware (with the exception of the NIC) so that nothing > conflicts. Choose Q and then S to save. A: drive lights up for a bit, and > then the harddrive. getting a white block in the upper left corner of the > screen (rest of screen is black) and it never proceeds with the install. > What is the problem here? I suspect you are deleting the system console device, but I am not sure. Make sure that you do not disable syscons. If you need any further assistance let me know. Good Luck, Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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