Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:37:53 -0500 From: Martin <spamoff@tampabay.rr.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 ethernet driver -- another puzzle Message-ID: <3650FDA1.A5F6ED6A@tampabay.rr.com> References: <3652D623.446B9B3D@ics.com>
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Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > I'm confused (as usual). > > I bought a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II after checking the Handbook to > see if it was supported. Great card...ne2000 clone > > > The Handbook say this NIC is based on the DEC DC21xxx. > > The Handbook and the LINT kernel config say to use de0 for DEC DC21xxx > NICs. > > So I configured a new kernel with the de0 device, built, installed, > rebooted ---- and nada. No probe, no nothing. Make sure the card is set for 0x280 and IRQ=9 using the supplied software. Use a dos boot disk and run 'setup'. Once configure and save FreeBsd will see it. All Linux and BSD probes are very limited. They look in a certain address range, that's why they don't find stuff in different address ranges. > > > The kernel config created /usr/src/sys/compile/mumble/de.h, which > contains "#define NDE 1"; but I grepped over the entire kernel source > for "de.h" and NDE, and found not a single occurance of either. > > I grepped the FAQ and the Handbook for more, but found nothing. Where is > the support for this device? > > This is on 3.0-RELEASE (x86). > > (I subscribe to hackers, not questions, so if the question is answered > in questions, please either cc hackers or me directly, whichever is more > appropriate. Thanks.) > > Thanks in advance. I preset all my cards and they are found O.K. so try it. Let us know how it goes :) Regards...Martin > > > -- > Kaleb > > 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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