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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c590 Drivers in FTP Install? Date: 5 Aug 1996 19:57:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4u5jo2$62f@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4u44la$osn@mars.efn.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@efn.org> wrote: > I did an FTP install which doesn't recognize a 3c590 ethernet card. Is > FreeBSD expecting a different address and interupt, or is the driver > needed not included in the FTP distribution? Since the 3c590 is a PCI card, the interrupt and IO address setting is obtained by PCI means. There is no need to mention it anywhere in the kernel config file, nor will it be displayed when booting with -c. You didn't wrote which version you are trying to install. The 3c590 driver is considered something like beta quality, so it has not been in the first (obsolete) version of 2.1.5R. However, since the release notes mention it, it has finally been included in the official version. The driver is not working very well, to say the least. Expect all kinds of surprises. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)