On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ed Wensell III wrote:

> Does NetBSD/i386 1.4.1 support the thinwire (10base2) port on DEC 
> EtherWORKS DE205 combo netword cards (AUI+Thinwire+Twisted-pair)? 
> If so, is there any special magic needed? 
> 
> I have several Digital Etherworks DE205 ISA combo 
> (AUI/Twisted-Pair/Thinwire) network cards. All work normally under
> Win32. NetBSD/i386 1.4.1 sees them and lets me set them up for AUI 
> and twisted-pair. I get the following error when I try to set the 
> thinwire port:
> 
> 	# ifconfig lc0 media 10base2
> 	ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured

[snip]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the kernel doesn't know
about lc0.  It may probe it, but not be configured to support it.  Does
dmesg report "lc0 at .... not configured"?  Or, try "ifconfig -a" to see
what interfaces it actually shows.  If it is truly there [and I'm a moron
:-) ], try "ifconfig -m lc0" to see the supported media types.  If that
works, but "ifconfig lc0 media xxx" still fails, then I have been of no
help :-(

Take care,

-Jon
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