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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!sun4nl!charon.cvi.ns.nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FreeBSD has no support for ethernet cards Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DvDGD9.s0@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <31FA8D63.38928091@intercom.com> <31FB0713.1B8C@mail.dbeach.com> <4thot2$av@holocron.odc.net> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:48:45 GMT Lines: 46 gdaswani@odc.net (George Henry C. Daswani) writes: >David Albany (hanz@mail.dbeach.com) wrote: >: dws wrote: >: > >: > We just got some Intel boxes at a great price for the office, and at the urging of a FreeBSD >: > developer, we put FreeBSD on one of the machines. However, I have put 3 ethernet cards in and >: > none of them have worked. I know this is a FreeBSD problem because I have seen discussions of >Basically, this is not a FreeBSD problem.. Hmmm, the thing that I found >on BSD systems compared to Linux is that you need to boot with it >"-c" option to CONFIGURE your network card so that FreeBSD can use it. >You need to set the ioport, irq and etc. >FreeBSD doesn't search for network cards by default like Linux. Which is not correct. It does search for cards, but only on the addresses/irq/whatever that were specified in the kernel config file (see the GENERIC config file). If you have your cards set for other places, you need to go the -c route. >: > The cards I have are an >: > >: > Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN Adapter PCI (no support) >Dunno about this one, did you read the HCL? Apparantly not. >: > Trendnet 16-bit TE-16 Xpress (NE-2000 compatible) (no support) >This should work. Use the -c option while booting. NE2000 clones work fine for me. >: > and a 3com Etherlink III 3C5098-TP rev. A >This one should also. Use the -c option. >: > format the FreeBSD and put Linux on top of it. >: > You are free to do so of course... Wilko