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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for ed0 in all the wrong places
Date: 3 Oct 1993 17:40:46 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CE8JBp.F7t@du.edu>, Edward Chadez <echadez@solaris.carl.org> wrote:
>I've installed FreeBSD on my 486 successfully.  However, device ed0 
>(refered to in the short README file and the longer INSTALL NOTES) does 
>not exist. I've configured my ethernet card according to what the install 
>notes say to do (ie, IRQ 5, Port 0x280).  My card is a 3COM 3503 card.  
>After the install, device /dev/ed0 (nor the /dev/we0, or /dev/ne0) did 
>not exist.  I haven't read the FAQ in depth, but I've looked for this 
>question (obviously without any luck).

The ethernet driver is not an externally accessible device, so therefore
you will not have a device entry in /dev.

You need to configure it in /etc/netstart.  It should be documented in
the release notes or the FAQ somewhere.

>(I only have the binaries, not the source.  Would I need to recompile the
>kernel for FreeBSD to see the card?)

Not if the hardware configuration matches the configuration in the release
notes, and you don't have any IRQ conflicts.



Nate

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