From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 14:17:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06380 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06290; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07965; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806302103.OAA07965@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Steve Bernacki Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any Success w/ Hitachi VisionBook PRO? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:17:30 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:03:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi everyone, > > I received a Hitachi VisionBook PRO from my employer yesterday. All > excited, I downloaded the 2.2.7.1 boot floppy from freebsd.org and tried > it out. Right before doing this, I booted into Windows and took note of > the ethernet card: a "AMD PCNET family" card. I did a quick search of the > mailing list archives and got wind that there has been limited success > using this card with the Lance drivers (lnc). So, I booted the machine > with the boot floppy and saw the following message: > > pci0:11: AND, device=0x2000, class=network (ethernet) int a irq 11 [no > driver assigned] > > Grumble. It sees the hardware, but refuses to bind the lnc driver to it. > My roomate has the same identical laptop running Redhat v4.2 with no > problems -- it identifies the card as "PCNET/PCI-II 79C970A at 0xfcc0, > assigned irq 11". Ted Faber has a patch that makes it work on his Hitachi system; I've been talking to him just recently about this in order to see if we can't make use of it. What we *really* need is for someone to come forward and write a new driver for the PCNET devices, because our current driver really isn't up to snuff. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message