From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 14: 5: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9937F37BF39 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6LL2SW23161; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: legg@iastate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The 3Com 3C905B and C should be auto-detected when the rest of the PCI devices are scanned. The device is ``xl'' and since it uses the MII bus, it will require any MII devices in the kernel (in case you choose to customize the kernel in any way). // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 legg@iastate.edu wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD. When I am setting up the hardware > immediately after inserting the mfsroot disk, I see my network card is not > on the list given to me. It is a 3Com 905-TX. > > I searched at 3Com and found that they have drivers for a wide range of > operating systems, Red Hat, Caldera, TurboLinux and SuSe, but not FreeBSD. > > Is the driver that works in those other operating systems able to operate > in FreeBSD and if so, how do I add it to the list of hardware that I > mentioned about earlier? If this driver doesn't work, does this mean that > I am better off using a different Linux/Unix that is compatible with the > driver? > > Timothy D Legg > > > > 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