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Re: Can't find network interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt debergalis)
Sun Sep 26 18:36:31 1999
To: Alex <xela@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John B Thurmond <thurmond@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Sep 1999 18:36:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: Alex's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:03:50 -0400"
Message-Id: <knh3dw1cnbr.fsf@northannex.ne.mediaone.net>
>> 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
Alex> The message you report is merely the kernel saying it sees
Alex> something on the bus there, and reporting what the item
Alex> describes itself as. If the kernel had a driver for that
Alex> ethernet card, it would report something along the lines of
Alex> what it reports for my 3c900: "ep0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0:
Alex> 3Com 3C900 Ethernet" look at
Alex> /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/doc/current/netbsd-install.{dvi|ps}
Alex> for a list cards supported by the install floppy.
which card exactly do you have? netbsd 1.3.2 (upon which netbsd-athena
is based) supports DEC 21x4x-based cards with this driver, and NetBSD
1.4.x has a long list of supported cards including the NetGear line.
the netbsd-athena install floppy does have support for the "de" driver,
so you might try booting a 1.4.x install floppy from ftp.netbsd.org to
see if it's supported under a newer version of NetBSD.
netbsd-athena should move to using 1.4.x sometime in the not-too-distant
future.
matt
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