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Re: Can't find network interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Sun Sep 26 17:03:59 1999
Message-Id: <199909262103.RAA20503@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
To: John B Thurmond <thurmond@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:32:10 EDT."
<199909262032.QAA28506@all-night-tool.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:03:50 -0400
From: Alex <xela@MIT.EDU>
> Just trying to install net-BSD athena on an old machine I had
> laying around...I just put a Netgear PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter in
> there - the card appears to work, and it's recognized in the
> floppy boot sequence. Something like vendor 0x11ad product 0x0002
> ethernet network rev 0x20 at pci0 dev 16
The message you report is merely the kernel saying it sees
something on the bus there, and reporting what the item describes
itself as. If the kernel had a driver for that ethernet card, it
would report something along the lines of what it reports for my
3c900: "ep0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: 3Com 3C900 Ethernet" look
at /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/doc/current/netbsd-install.{dvi|ps}
for a list cards supported by the install floppy.
---Alex
Carl Alexander
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