Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:55:38 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rone@ennui.ops.best.com (Ron Echeverri) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot.flp cannot find Etherlink III PCI card Message-ID: <199605150625.PAA27138@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605150146.SAA10290@ennui.ops.best.com> from "Ron Echeverri" at May 14, 96 06:46:45 pm
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Ron Echeverri stands accused of saying: > > Towards the end of booting, i see a > pci0:11: vendor=0x10b7, device=0x5900, class=network (ethernet) [no driver assigned] > > It later says that the VGA card is at pci0:12, irq 11, which leads me to > believe that the message above indeed refers to the PCI ethernet card that > Win95 identifies as "3Com Etherlink III Bus-Master PCI Ethernet Adaptor" > and locates at IRQ 10, at 0x300. If it's giving it an address like 0x300, it's probably in some ISA-compatability mode. You don't want that for starters. > If i look in LINT, it says > > # The `vx' device provides support for the 3Com 3C590 and 3C595 > # early support > controller pci0 > device vx0 > > However, when i scroll back, i see no vx0 tested by the boot.flp kernel. PCI devices aren't probed for, they're looked up by reference. If you're not getting the vx driver pulled up on that device, it's because it's not in the kernel or the device ID's are wrong. (the vendor= and device= fields) > I was toying with the idea of building a custom kernel that included vx0 > and replacing boot.flp's kernel with the new one, but i decided that before > doing anything "cleverly stupid", i'd ask here first. Building boot floppies is hard work. You won't be able to just 'drop it in' in place of the kernel on the floppy. Which version are you installing? > rone -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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