From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 13 08:54:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02400 for current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rapture.cyberflunk.com (pluvius@rapture.cyberflunk.com [199.242.19.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02395 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (pluvius@localhost) by rapture.cyberflunk.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07197 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:48:16 -0700 (PDT) From: pluvius To: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 590 not seen In-Reply-To: <199606130954.CAA10575@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If it counts for anything, i had some pretty wierd behaviour with a 3c590 .. it was in the 960601-snap, when using the 3c590 (it was an asus mother board, with ide disabled, and a aha2940W) it worked fine, and infact well enough to do a network install via ftp from, but once the operating system was installed, i experienced VERY odd behaviour: o any outbound connections will hang after transfering approx 1K (ie: telnet from the box, ftp from the box) o all inbound (incoming telnet, incoming ftp) worked perfectly fine. I decided to yank the 590 and put in a 3c509 and everything works just fine. J Wunsch : > As Beck Peccoz Amedeo wrote: > > > In the kernel config I added the line "options vx0" as suggested > > from the LINT, but when starting up, the kernel didn't notice > > the board, so I tried to contigure the kernel, i.e. type a "-c" > > at the boot prompt, but in the network section only the usual > > serial and parallel port drivers appeared. > > Only ISA drivers need to be configured with boot -c. > > > I'm running Snapshot with ctm 1873. What's wrong? > > Well, vx0 is a device, not an option. ;) > > device vx0 > > - -- > cheers, J"org