From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 8:24:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kechara.flame.org (kechara.flame.org [204.152.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0427614E40 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@kechara.flame.org) Received: (qmail 3013 invoked from network); 18 Oct 1999 15:24:55 -0000 Received: from kechara.flame.org (204.152.184.79) by kechara.flame.org with SMTP; 18 Oct 1999 15:24:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kechara.flame.org (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA03009; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Andreas Berg To: ATeslik@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c905c-tx-m NIC In-Reply-To: <0.b0ac45a6.253be47e@aol.com> 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 On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 ATeslik@aol.com wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:48:30 EDT > From: ATeslik@aol.com > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: 3com 3c905c-tx-m NIC > > Hello, > > So, I went and returned that Linksys LNE100TXII NIC and bought a 3Com > 3C905C-TX-M NIC instead. It seems to have been a bad move because when I > compile "xl" into my kernel, the card doesn't even show up during boot. > Again, the dos diags that came with it have no problem seeing it, but FreeBSD > can't. This is getting really old really fast. Plug and Play in the bios is > set to auto, then I tried manual, then I tried recompiling my kernel, then I > read all the archives, then searched up and down for a driver. Nothing. Does > anyone have this card and have success using it? It doesn't even come up! > Grrrrrr. I have the exact same board as you speak of above in two of my computers. It works just fine. I believe its called 3C905-TX-NM though. It uses the same drives as 3C905-TX anyway. make sure that you have 'device xl0', 'controller pnp0' and 'controller pci 0' in your kernel conf. kernel.GENERIC should find the board too. > Alex -Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message