From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jun 30 19:09:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28385 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:09:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygnus.rush.net (root@cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28313; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA19767; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:43:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch To: "Steve Bernacki Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Success w/ Hitachi VisionBook PRO In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If its a PCMCIA card, you might wanna try FreeBSD-PAO, available on www.jp.freebsd.org. thats what I use on my laptop ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Steve Bernacki Jr. wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I received a Hitachi VisionBook PRO from my employer yesterday. All > excited, I downloaded the 2.2.7.1 boot floppy from freebsd.org and tried > it out. Right before doing this, I booted into Windows and took note of > the ethernet card: a "AMD PCNET family" card. I did a quick search of the > mailing list archives and got wind that there has been limited success > using this card with the Lance drivers (lnc). So, I booted the machine > with the boot floppy and saw the following message: > > pci0:11: AND, device=0x2000, class=network (ethernet) int a irq 11 [no > driver assigned] > > Grumble. It sees the hardware, but refuses to bind the lnc driver to it. > My roomate has the same identical laptop running Redhat v4.2 with no > problems -- it identifies the card as "PCNET/PCI-II 79C970A at 0xfcc0, > assigned irq 11". > > This card appears to be kinda screwy, as it's identified as both "PCI & > ISA" ("choose yer favorite bus!"). In some messages I've pulled up from > the mailing list I've seen reference to both a lnc0 and lnc1 device; > however, one can only configure lnc0 from from the Visual Configuration > tool. > > So, my question is: has anyone had any sucess with this particular card > and or laptop? I'd love to provide all the information I can if it'd help > more, or please let me know if it's a lost cause. :) I'm not a hardware > hacker but would be glad to help in anyway I can -- this is a very nice > laptop otherwise. > > Thanks! > > -S > -- > Steve Bernacki, Jr. | > steve@ziplink.net | > > > > > 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-mobile" in the body of the message