From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 31 13:27:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19076 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19062 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA26338; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:27:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Philippe Regnauld cc: Dermot McNally , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with ed driver (PCI) In-Reply-To: <19980731100027.62584@deepo.prosa.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > Dermot McNally writes: > > On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:41:15 GMT, you wrote: > > > > >However, this doesn't help, because after boot time, any attempt to > > >configure the interface leads to the error: > > > > > >interface ed0 does not exist > > > > OK, There have been a few suggestions so far, none of which hits the > > problem. I'd better give a few more details. > > > > The card is actually sold under the name "Micronet" although it is > > recognised as a Realtek chipset. Its little green light goes on, indicating > > that it sees the network OK and the corresponding little green light on the > > hub comes on too. > > Ok, I've had this problem too -- I was at the ISOC Workshops in > Geneva, and we wanted to install FreeBSD on the machines we had > there (P200 HP Vectra ?L) -- the cards available were all > 3c905, and a few spare Realtek chipset-based PCI ed's. > > FreeBSD 2.2.6 _with this machine_ has the exact same symptom: > > - probe find the card (as ed1) > - ifconfig sees _no_ ed1. > > What bugs me is the _same_ card on another 2.2.6, this > one ASUS TX-97 based, works fine. I even copied > and pasted the relevant lines from the kernel config file... Curiosity kills, what does `ifconfig -l' report on machines exhibiting this problem? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message