From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 09:19:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07820 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17388; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:18:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma017335; Thu, 3 Sep 98 11:18:13 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA23751; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:18:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:18:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Jason Myers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Interface Card Driver Support?? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980903120752.00918b30@pop.internal.mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 . 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