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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: COMPEX ENET32 (Dec21041) PROBLEMS Date: 28 Feb 1996 23:54:14 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4h2pv6$455@helena.MT.net> References: <4gqmrd$3e4@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4gqmrd$3e4@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de>, Thomas Wolfram <wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >Hi, > >I've FreeBSD 2.1.0 RELEASE running on a ASUS TP4XE board with >a P90. >Recently I installed a Compex ENET32 PCI ethernet card. It's >the new version of the card which uses the newer Digital 21041 >chip instead of the previous used 20140 chip. >The problem is that the card is normally detected but I cannot >ping to anywhere when I boot directly into FreeBSD after power-on. The updated driver in -current supports the newer cards, but that code hasn't yet been brought into -stable, so a patch against 2.1R doesn't exist (yet). If you aren't scared of kernel hacking you might want to try and back-port the -current driver and see if it works on your card. If so, I'm sure we'd be interested in seeing your work. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth