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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!usenet From: Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet cards Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 19:05:12 +0000 Organization: Atlantic Systems Group Lines: 48 Message-ID: <31E00A68.41C67EA6@ASG.unb.ca> References: <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca> <4rp5vh$6f7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.164.16.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Stefan Esser <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Stefan Esser wrote: > > In article <31DD73A8.41C6@ASG.unb.ca>, Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> writes: > |> I notice the FreeBSD home page says that PNP PCI cards > |> are not supported and that those features must be > |> turned off for PCI ethernet cards to work. Does the > |> kernel config file device entry for the card stay the > |> same? I have an entry that looks like: > |> > |> device le0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 vector le_intr > |> > |> yet the le probe does not find the card. This card is found > |> by the le driver on NetBSD-1.1 BTW. > > What kind of card is this ? > > It won't help to tell which driver finds the > card under any other OS. Instead always send > VERBOSE boot messages (enter "-v" at the Boot: > prompt) and I'll be able to tell you whether > the card is supported by the FreeBSD PCI code. > > If it is a Lance compatible card, then I can > send you patches I want to integrate into the > FreeBSD-current source tree as soon as I get > some positive feedback (I don't own a Lance > Ethernet card and have no way of testing my > patches beyond a kernel build) ... Actually, it is an IBM card but the chipset is of the PCNet32 family (yes, lance compatible). I was originally under the impression that the lnc driver would handle this, but to no avail. Although after seeing the le driver on NetBSD work with it, I tried the le driver on FreeBSD with the same results. Probe doesnt find anything. I dont remember the chip number, its still at work, It is the regular PCI version though, AM98370 or something like that? (That number is wrong, but it does start with AM9xxxxx or something that looks close 8-)) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Howlett Atlantic Systems Group E-Mail: Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca Fredericton, N.B. Canada http://www.ASG.unb.ca/personal/ph.html Phone: (506) 447-3050 PGP Key ID: 60F2EEC1 Fax: (506) 453-5004