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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!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!news.citenet.net!usenet From: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A driver for the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 card? Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:27:38 GMT Organization: Canadian Gateway Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4vfnu3$ee0@cti01.citenet.net> References: <1996Aug20.183457.956@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.151.204.75 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 hfir@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Hoss Firooznia) wrote: >Content-Length: 1187 >Status: RO >Hello FreeBSD folk! > Has a driver been written yet for the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 ethernet >card? Yeah use the latest snap....its in there......I had the same problem > I'm a new and enthusiastic FreeBSD user (after listening to a talk given >by Jordan Hubbard in Mountain View a few weeks back). My employer recently >bought a nifty new Pro Pentium machine for running NT and I've been trying >to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 in an unused partition in my spare time. Maybe I >can eventually convince him to get rid of NT entirely. ;-) hehehhehehhe, I thought I could to (I have the same problem here) However nt does have its strong suits. One, only let it do one thing and you'll be ok :) > Unfortunately the hardware wasn't purchased with FreeBSD in mind, and >the ethernet card (an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100) isn't being recognized >by the FreeBSD kernel. its fxp0 I think. > A search of the mailing lists turned up hopeful news from earlier this >year about a driver in the works for this card; however I haven't been able >to locate one yet. > Is this a lost cause for now? If so, should I keep my eyes open for a >driver coming out sometime soon? >Thanks very much for any help you can give - and thanks for FreeBSD! :-) > - Hoss >-- >Hoss Firooznia | hfir@math.rochester.edu >Department of Mathematics | Work Phone: (716) 275-4428 >University of Rochester | http://www.math.rochester.edu/u/hfir/work.html >-- >Hoss Firooznia -- <hfir@troi.cc.rochester.edu>