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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3COM PCI 3C590 Fast Etherlink III. Is network installation possible? Date: 15 Jun 1996 18:47:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4pv0g5$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tobez@biobase.dk (Tony Berezin) wrote: > I have a 3COM 3C590 PCI network card on my system. > It is noted in release notes to FreeBSD 2.1-960606-SNAP that this card is > supported by FreeBSD. > > The problem is that the kernel on the boot floppy does not contain > the driver for this card (to be sure, I've checked drivers list > using -c option on bootup). The driver is there. boot -c does only show the ISA drivers -- PCI drivers are auto-configuring since they can reliably be probed. The card should show up with the `vx' driver. However, this driver is a ``known rogue'' still. Use at your own risk. -- 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. ;-)