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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: COMPEX ENET32 (Dec21041) PROBLEMS Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:11:57 GMT Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4gqmrd$3e4@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: grobi.prz.tu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Hi, I've FreeBSD 2.1.0 RELEASE running on a ASUS TP4XE board with a P90. Recently I installed a Compex ENET32 PCI ethernet card. It's the new version of the card which uses the newer Digital 21041 chip instead of the previous used 20140 chip. The problem is that the card is normally detected but I cannot ping to anywhere when I boot directly into FreeBSD after power-on. When I boot into DOS before so that a NDIS driver gets installed and then Ctrl-Alt-Del and boot into FreeBSD it works. It seems that the short installation of the NDIS driver initializes some more register on the card or whatever which isn't done by the FreeBSD driver. Is there a workaround expect of booting into DOS before? Anyone using a 21041 based card under FreeBSD? BTW, Linux 1.2.13 with the Digital de4x5 driver doesn't have this problem. It's only FreeBSD. (But I prefer FreeBSD...) Thank you in advance, Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram email: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de PRZ/EANTC, Technical University of Berlin voice: +49 30 314 27606 http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf fax: +49 30 314 25986 _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____