From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 24 16:11:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27990 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu ([207.51.114.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27960; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by jtrevick.student.simons-rock.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA04153; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:05:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:05:34 -0500 (EST) From: root To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys NIC, was: Re: de ethernet driver -- another puzzle In-Reply-To: <365ACE9F.8566C16B@ics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of curiosity, If I have a Linksys NIC and want to do a FTP install of FreeBSD, how would I go about it since support isnt config'ed into the kernel On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > > >>> I also now know why the de probe doesn't print out a message when the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > >>> probe fails. Which is not to say that I think that's good. On the > > >>> contrary, I think it's bad. C'est la vie. > > >> Printing out an error message when a PCI match fails would be stupid; > > Yup; but then I said as much. > > > >> every PCI device is (currently) presented to every PCI driver until one > > >> claims it. Printing a message when the match failed ("no, not for me") > > >> would produce a useless spew of garbage. > > > You need a pseudo-device at the end of the inquiry chain to catch > > > id's that haven't been caught by the real drivers, and to print > > > out a message ("PCI: no driver: id xxx ..."). > > > > That's catching the wrong set. > > Yes and no. > > > Kaleb wanted the to know the drivers without cards. > > Not really. I wanted to know why the de driver wasn't recognizing my > NIC. According to the FAQ and the Handbook it is supposed to be the > driver for my card. Turns out it's not, but there ought to be a better > way to discover this than by sprinkling the kernel with printfs, or > try-each-one-until-one-succeeds, or > turn-everything-on-to-discover-which-it-is. > > > You're giving us the set of cards without drivers. > > (This is also possibly a useful set, but not what kaleb wanted.) > > Seems to me -- from the cursory look-see that I took while figuring out > my card -- that the PCI ethernet stuff could be unified into something > like a single pci (pseudo?) ethernet device. That could be fun to hack > on. > > > -- > Kaleb > > 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-hackers" in the body of the message