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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tim Palmer <timpal@intercall.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3c590...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713184625.1065B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31E8214F.956@intercall.com>

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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Tim Palmer wrote:

> I'm trying to get a 3c590 ethernet board to talk to my FreeBSD 
> 2.1 (Walnut Creek CD-ROM) and having no luck. I've downloaded if_vx.c 
> and if_vxreg.h from -current and referenced if_vc in my files.i386, but 
> the kernel compile fails with 3 messages complaining about if_vx.c 
> referencing an unknown "if_softc". So, my real question is: as a non C 
> speaking person, should I not worry about making this 3c590 work just 
> yet? Or did I just miss a simple step in installing the driver?

Trying to back-port it to 2.1-R wouldn't be such a great idea.  Just hang 
on for the 2.1.5-RELEASE; it includes the 3c590 support, I believe.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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