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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!news.ucsc.edu!etrigan From: etrigan@cats.ucsc.edu (Joseph Christopher Dilellio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: installing with a a 3com 3c589c card Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:47:31 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5avqfj$rhs@darkstar.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33653 i tried to install with this card, and i seemed to have some problems. altho the card was recognized by freebsd, it didn't seem to actually route any traffic thru it. i had the card set to the default settings in the GENERIC kernel for zp0, but it didn't seem like packets were even getting to the card. is there something i'm doing wrong? i was under the impression that i could use this card for installing freebsd. i'm not trying to use pccard services; i'm just wanting to use this card for networking my laptop. it works fine under dos, so i know the card itself is ok. btw, i'm using the august release of 2.1.5. i was poking around through the archives, and the only possible info i found was that the following might be something i'd want to put in my kernel config file. controller crd0 device pcic0 at crd? device pcic1 at crd? i'd think this was for pccard stuff, but i'm not as familiar with the issues involved in that. i've installed freebsd a few times now, so i'm fairly comfortable with that; i've installed a variety of unixes before, so i'm really not a neophyte here except possibly from the freebsd end. any help would be appreciated. thanks. joe ps. i'll be reading this group, but if you could respond via email to this or joe@planetx.org, that'd be really cool. at this point, anything to get bsd/os off the laptop would be great. -- Power breeds corruption; absolute power is pretty neat. - Richard "Bob" Greene