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Date:      Wed, 02 May 2001 09:41:43 -0700
From:      Flemming =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F8kj=E6r?= <flemming@froekjaer.org>
To:        KP <keith_proffitt@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel/Config Install problems (DFE-530TX+, fd0, config> di fe0, and more.
Message-ID:  <4.1.20010502093157.00ac57f8@sleipner.eiffel.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010501034111.2932.qmail@web3303.mail.yahoo.com>

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At 08:41 PM 4/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I am extremely new to any *NIX OS (brought up on MS).
>I need to know how to config the kernal to see
>(identify) the DLink DFE-530TX+ NIC and load the
>proper device driver (rl ???).  Also, the

I don't know that card. It could be 1 of 3 things. 
1) It's not the rl driver.
2) The DFE-530TX+ is not supported by FreeBSD
3) The NIC is broken

What happens if you boot a GENERIC kernel?
Could you post a DMESG output of that?

>instructions(in the book - came with CDs) for make
>depend, make and make install seem to conflict what I
>have seen on FreeBSD site. Any insight would be

I'm not sure what the book sayes. The corect way is to run 
/usr/sbin/configure YOURKERNEL
cd ../../YOURKERNEL
make depend
make
make install
reboot

>-------------
>DMESG
>-------------
>config> di sn0
>config> di lnc0
>config> di ie0
>config> di fe0
>No such device: fe0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di ed0
>No such device: ed0
>Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
>config> di cs0
>config> q

You have a lot of di <something> in your /boot/kernel.conf
Try to delete them before you boot a GENERIC kernel.

\Flemming


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