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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem building system kernel using FreeBSD 2.1 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:22:33 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33503559.6269@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5ili2d$f7@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Paul Kersey <pkersey@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38991 Paul Kersey wrote: > > Hi folks, > Last night I put a network card (Digital DE205-AC) in my computer > thats running FreeBSD 2.1. I edited the system kernel to recognize > the new network card. I ran though the "config" cammand without > errors. But after starting the "make" command on the kernel I get > the following error message: > > loading kernel > if_le.o: Undefined symbol `_ether_sprintf' referenced from text segment > > *** Error code 1 > > Stop > > I was able to compile a system kernel before wihtout the network card. At the bottom of your system config file, do you have the entry- pseudo-device ether This line is necessary to include the 'generic' Ethernet subroutines which are used by the specific NIC drivers! Tony