From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 23:27:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D939037B404 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g3O6RSl02986; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:27:28 -0800 Message-Id: <200204240627.g3O6RSl02986@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: "Martin" , Subject: Re: 3com509b TPC not working properly Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:27:28 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> <200204230716.g3N7GT129787@pen.homeip.net> <00e701c1eaf5$65557130$1c07f9c2@pheaton> In-Reply-To: <00e701c1eaf5$65557130$1c07f9c2@pheaton> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:33 am, Martin wrote: > Greetings.. > > John, gotta tell you that same happened to me.BNC didn't give its MAC > address, but everything else.But i remember that once i had pci card too, > but just with UTP - and it worked just fine (in fact, never had better > network card). > BTW: John i didn't understand you about that "manual loading module".Can > you please tell me more about that? > Maybe someone else knows how to fix this? Is this some kind of failure in > FreeBSD?Hm.. maybe some patches.. > Please, if anybody knows, let me know. Oops, I said: > > I didn't compile it into the kernel, just loaded the module. > > (Which it figured out how to do by itself). What I meant was that once the new card was in place (two of them actually - planning it to be a firewall) the system just figured out to load the proper modual. Both those card types (509 and 905) are ones that Freebsd supports without compiling them in. -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message