Subject: Re: 3C905B-TX isn't loading
To: Matt Herzog <mherzog@mediaone.net>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neilson_Ant=F4nio_Henriques?= <neilson@predialnet.com.br>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/13/2001 01:06:21
Hi Matt ...

    Do you use it in Sparc64 ?

    I'm downloading the 20010821-current snapshot.

    Does anybody knows why sysinst "Could not initialize curses" ??

    Thankful !

    Neilson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Herzog" <mherzog@mediaone.net>
To: "Neilson Antônio Henriques" <neilson@predialnet.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: 3C905B-TX isn't loading


> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:46:48PM -0300, Neilson Antônio Henriques wrote:
> > Hi all ..
> >
> >     I know that all newbies piss off anyone but I really need
> >     to put this machine up and running. NetBSD is a good
> >     choice of OS.
> >
> >     I've 3 NICs 3C905B-TX installed at this machine. Beside
> >     the kernel load and "identify" the NIC, it isn't usable because
> >     "ifconfig -a" only shows hme and the other default ones.
> >
> >     The kernel says three times:
> >
> >     3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x30)
> > aunction 0 not configured
> >
> >     I know that this "error" can be displayed due to a NIC
> >     misconfiguration but I hope someone can help me or point me
> >     a hint. (maybe NetBSD i386 shows something similar)
>
> I have been using  3c905B-TX 10/100 since NetBSD 1.4.1 I think. When
NetBSD
> says, "device not configured," it means the device has no driver support
in the kernel. This leads me to believe you have an old version of NetBSD.
You want to be running 1.5.2.
> >
> >     Thankful !
> >
> >     Neilson
> >
> >
>