On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 08:44:44PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
>  Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
>  ifconfig -m reports for ep0, not the card name, that this networking device
> is properly configured. Me I'm confused. On Micro$oft'$ world you think of
> device names, and software, here on NetBSD, and FreeBSD, and Linux, you
> think of device aliases, and names, and software. I need a translator for
> this. And C3-P0 doesn't work with this OS.
	You can see what devices NetBSD found using dmesg.  There are a couple
reasons that the name of the driver is different than the card.  First, it
would be rather awkward to refer to more than one card.  Second, what a
manufacturer calls it's card is often not a good representation of what
is actually on a card.  Two identically named cards with merely different
revision could have a completely different chips and require different
drivers.  Also, two completely different cards can use the same driver
if they have the same chips.
	Having a way to go from name-of-card to driver-name
isn't always obvious.  However, I believe there is a "translator" of
sorts in the form of a supported hardware database.  I was hoping this
would be on the "Supported Hardware" page, but it isn't.  Anyone remember
the address for the page?

eric