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From: tsingle@sunflower.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tim Singletary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3Com 3C900 PCI ethernet card?
Date: 08 Nov 1996 17:58:41 -0500
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In-reply-to: fred@lightside.net's message of Sat, 02 Nov 1996 12:39:57 -0800
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My hardware vendor installed a 3C900 PCI network card. Does any version of
FreeBSD support this card, or am I going to have to swap it for something
else? Thanks.
I also have a 3C900 -- I just got it to work! I'm running
the `2.2-961014-SNAP' version, and I don't know if what I'm about to
say applies to any other version. Anyway, here's what I did:
I modified /sys/pci/if_vx.c. The mod was pretty trivial: in function
vx_pci_probe, I added the lines:
if(device_id == 0x900110b7ul)
return "#Com 3c900 EtherLink XL PCI";
I then remade the kernel.
Then I spent several hours getting frustrated, since all the net
software seemed to be configured properly yet I couldn't see anything
on the net and nothing could see me.
Finally, I went back to DOS, ran the EtherDisk diagnostics (on the
disk that came with the adapter), and forced the adapter to use the
RJ45 connector. When I rebooted FreeBSD, it was on the network!
tim
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