Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:23:58 +0100 (MET) From: David Berard <berard@univ-savoie.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C590 Ethernet card & FreeBSD 2.1.0 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960221111450.1113B-100000@fuji.univ-savoie.fr> In-Reply-To: <199602210136.CAA01238@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
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On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Andreas Schulz wrote: > > > We want to use an 3C590 ethernet card under FreeBSD 2.1.0. > > > > We have got files if_vx.c and if_vxreg.h from FreeBSD-current, > > added if_vx.c in /sys/conf/files, and also got a new version of > > if.h. > > > > We have succeeded to compile the driver, but when booting, we get a core dump > > when the system tries to load the driver. > > Are you really getting a core-dump ? Or are you seeing a panic ? This was a kernel panic. > You need to build a new kernel with this driver included. This is no > lkm-loadable driver. > > > Can someone give us the correct procedure to run this device under FreeBSD. > > You should not change if.h. You need instead to adopt if_vx.c and if_vxreg.h > to work under the FreeBSD 2.1.0 release. I don't know what has changed > from 2.1 to current. Some major changes are a reorganisation of the > include-files. So you may need to play with that. And in the last weeks > some changes for the bpf. > If you can't find out the changes, maybe someone with cvs access can > pull out an older release of the driver that can be more easily integrated. > The first version of it entered the tree at 10/31/95. At that date it > should not be very different from 2.1. Thank you, we have try with the 1.8 version (current version is 1.9) of the driver, compilation and boot is OK. But, we have problem during transmission. I think it's not a driver issue because we have the same sort of problem under Linux. It seem to be a problem between the 3C590 and the Endeavor intel motherboard > > ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) > > Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 > Gebaeude 13.10 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe > David Berard
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