Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:22:49 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard Message-ID: <48858848b9ed.48b9ed488588@marquette.edu>
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Guys, I worked at what was primarily an ISP, although we did OEM build machines for companies that used us as their ISP. Basically we setup routers for their ISDN connections, gateways, mailservers, etc. using FreeBSD. Needless to say, we used ALOT of these cards, which is why I have a few of them. In all the time I worked there, we never had a problem with these cards. Yet, I did notice that the chipsets on these cards did change from time to time. Sometimes it was a DEC chip and othertimes it was an Intel-based chip. As a matter of fact, I have one of those cards in one of my machines at home and it gives me the same "compatibility shims" message that you're getting. Unfortunately, I haven't done any work with this, since at the moment, this machine stands alone and uses a modem for internet connectivity. What may be the issue is that it happens to have a different chipset (Intel or something else perhaps?) Just sending out logical probabilities. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2000 9:34 am Subject: RE: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard > I dunno guys, I run FreeBSD 3.4 as Gateway with 2 NIC's installed. > One of > them is KNE100TX which is connected to ADSL modem, the device name > is pn0 , > and I never had any problems with it... > Andrei... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee J Carmichael [mailto:lcarmich@wamnet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:30 AM > To: Kenneth Wayne Culver > Cc: mac; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard > > > Hello Kenneth, > > I agree, that changing the attach section wouldn't be too > difficult. I'm > sorry if I had the jargon incorrect as well. > > Take Care, > -------- > Lee Carmichael WAM!NET Inc. > System Engineer 655 Lone Oak Rd Building E > 651-256-5292 Eagan, MN 55121 > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > In that case it would not have said "de0" I did look at the > code, it would > > say "pci0" instead of "de0" so it at least got through the probe > portion> of the code, it probably failed in attach, I guess I just > used the wrong > > word... chances are that if someone goes through the code it is > probably> not too hard to make this chip work. > > > > > > ================================================================= > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > ================================================================= > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee J Carmichael wrote: > > > > > No it isn't. Just because it attempted to guess doesn't mean > it was able > > > to load a driver or attach a device. If it doesn't show up as > a network > > > device it didn't find a driver. Read the device driver code, I > bet you > > > wouldn't find support for that revision of the chip in it. > Just like the > > > AMD chipset I checked over. Basically, it finds a superset for > that> > chipset but not that particular version so it guesses at > detection but > > > isn't able to anything more. > > > > > > Mac: I ran into this on 4.1. > > > > > > -------- > > > Lee Carmichael WAM!NET Inc. > > > System Engineer 655 Lone Oak Rd Building E > > > 651-256-5292 Eagan, MN 55121 > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > > > this is wrong... it says "de0:" so that means it IS > attaching a device > > > > driver. > > > > > > > > > > > > > =================================================================> > > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade > | > > > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 > | > > > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr > | > > > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under > Construction) | > > > > | College Park. | > http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/|>; > > > =================================================================> > > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee J Carmichael wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello Mac, > > > > > > > > > > In my experience, this means that the ethernet > card/chipset is > detected > > > > > but that it does not have a driver for it. Basically, you > need to > search > > > > > for a driver(or write one) to use the card/chipset. > > > > > > > > > > -------- > > > > > Lee Carmichael WAM!NET Inc. > > > > > System Engineer 655 Lone Oak Rd Building E > > > > > 651-256-5292 Eagan, MN 55121 > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, mac wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > hi there, > > > > > > > > > > > > i got a really strange problem with this KNE100TX from > Kingston:> > > > > de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> at device > 11.0 on pci0 > > > > > > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > > > > > > > > > > > that's the bootmessage (the dc-driver did not produce any > information at > > > > > > boottime), but i can't attach ip-numbers on it. if a > make a > ifconfig -a > > > > > > the device is not listed. > > > > > > > > > > > > die digital-chip on the card says: 21140-AF > > > > > > > > > > > > could someone help me? > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks in advance > > > > > > mac > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > DaMac@irc: #team23.org > > > > > > mac@deam.org > > > > > > PGP-ID#: 0x6F28F58E > > > > > > PGP-Type: DH/DSS | 2048/1024 > > > > > > -------------------------------------> http://mac.deam.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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