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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c590 Drivers in FTP Install? Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:07:31 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32075FB3.62EE@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4u44la$osn@mars.efn.org> <32075900.5B7D@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Ken Bigelow wrote: > > Michelle Brownsworth 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? > > > > \\ichelle > > I don't know if that driver is present in the installation floppy, but > you definitely have to tell FreeBSD where to find the hardware. At the > boot: prompt type -c and then at the CONFIG> prompt type v or visual. > From the top of the menu list type x to show all devices that FreeBSD > will look for. Go down the list and hit <delete> for all devices you > don't have. Correct the port address and IRQ for whatever you do have, if > necessary. > > You'll have to go through the same process when you boot the installed > system the first time. Sorry -- I forgot this was a PCI card. If I had gotten Jeorg's post before sending mine, I wouldn't have sent mine in. Supposedly -- :-) -- Erols now has it all together and the news servers will be syncronized and working correctly. If so, I'll avoid oops!-es like this one. > -- > > Ken > > Are you interested in | > byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com > over the Internet? |