From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 15 15:39:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (dav48.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.22.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E073E37B440 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from want_2_learn_freebsd@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:39:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [209.144.200.55] From: "Doug Wilson" To: "Dru" Cc: References: Subject: Re: please help with pcmcia nic... Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:39:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2001 22:39:48.0951 (UTC) FILETIME=[FA61AE70:01C0C5FC] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Dru, I could not find any reference to PnP OS in the Bios. I assume that's plug-n-play? Anyway, I have a PhoenixBIOS and the closest thing to your reference was "Installed O/S:" with the choices of Win95 or Other. It was set to Other. Which should it be? Doug. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dru" To: "Doug Wilson" > > Hi Doug, > > Is Pnp OS off in your BIOS? > > Dru > > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Doug Wilson wrote: > > > Hi list. > > > > I have a laptop running FreeBSD 4.2 Release. It has a 3Com Megahertz Model > > 3CCFE575BT 10/100 Base-TX PCMCIA which I bought a few weeks ago. > > > > Windows of course sees the card, and I'm online there. Redhat, and Debian > > brands of Linux see the nic. But FreeBSD doesn't not! > > > > I am totally lost!!! > > > > I did try to add to the kernel: > > > > zp #3com PCMCIA Etherlink III (I got this from "The Complete FreeBSD"). > > > > But conf said that zp was invalid. > > > > I have searched long and hard for support--I have also searched for any info > > about another pcmcia nic card that FreeBSD supports, but nothing--just that > > obscure reference in that book that was invalid. (I can return the 3Com, > > but for what? Another pcmcia card that is not supported?) > > > > Does anyone got any ideas? I'd really like to get it working. > > Doug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message