From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 18:11:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C79137B424 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cm-208-170-220-127.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com ([208.170.220.127]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000820011339.WNIT382.smtp2a@cm-208-170-220-127.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com>; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:13:39 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:11:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Van Den Akker To: billmc@internetaddress.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What happened to 3c589/3c509 install support? In-Reply-To: <000001c009fe$2dd7bb70$6401a8c0@tp770z> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a 3c509 that FBSD 4.1 picked up on the very first install. It's been running great ever since the initial setup. """ (o o) ====================oOO==(_)==OOo======================= ____ _ / ___|| |_ _____ _____ : Steve Van Den Akker \___ \| __/ _ \ \ / / _ \ : vandena@ispchannel.com ___) | || __/\ V / __/ : www.nwf-soccer.com |____/ \__\___| \_/ \___| : ======================================================== "Rescued from Micro$oft...Proponet of FreeBSD." On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Bill McMilleon wrote: > I've used both my 3c509 ISA NIC and my 3c589 PC Card NIC to easily install > FreeBSD before (the 3.x series). Since 4.1 has been released (maybe since > 4.0?) I've noticed that ep0 is no longer listed as a supported Network > device during kernel configuration. Has support for these devices been > removed from the standard install kernel? If so, I'm sure there was a good > reason, but I have no idea what that reason would be. On the other hand, > maybe I'm clueless on this and someone could show me just what to do in > order to perform a network-based install using either of these NICs. > > --Bill McMilleon > billmc@internetaddress.com > > > > > 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