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From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI Ethernet cards
Date: 7 Jul 1996 20:16:49 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Sender: se@Sparcy42 (Stefan Esser)
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To: Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca>

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) ...

Regards, STefan
-- 
 Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen		Tel:	+49 221 4706021
 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln	FAX:	+49 221 4705160
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