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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3Com 590 ethernet and recompiling kernel Date: 27 Jan 1996 22:33:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ee976$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ecr9j$ahj@cdc2.cdc.net> 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 0.9.3 kurt@vianet.on.ca writes: > I just installed FreeBSD on a system with a 3Com 590 PCI ethernet card, .. > So... can anybody shed some light on exactly how I do this ? Read the FAQ, section 7. The 3c590 card is only supported in current by the `vx' driver. However, you could pick a copy of the files /sys/pci/if_vx* from your favorite mirror of FreeBSD-current, drop it into your system, edit your /sys/conf/files to add this driver, and get it going even under 2.1R. Simply say device vx0 in the config file. Since it's PCI, the driver can figure out everything itself. -- 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. ;-)