Hello,
I just did the unthinkable and purchased a Compaq 5868 :-) I was
using an older (~10-30-99) snapshot of stable. That snaptshot worked fine
on my older PII-333.
The problem I am having is that the de0 interface will not come
up. I have manually tried to bring it up with ifconfig de0 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0 up, but the network is still unresponsive.
Samething happens with the most recent current snapshot. To elaborate, I
simply installed the OS and chose the options to use de0 from sysinstall.
The proper entries were placed in /etc/rc.conf. For some reason, it works
fine on my old hardware, but the identical options chosen on my new
hardware (same NIC from the old box) and it doesn't work. I have a
feeling it has to do with the way the hardware is probed and the device is
taken down (although it still shows with the proper config under ifconfig
-l or -A).
So ... my current hardware configuration is ...
AMD Athlon (K7) 600MHz
Motherboard uses AMD751 chipset (compaq or AMD board?) with 200MHz
FSB
128MB SDRAM100
Asante 10baseT PCI card (sorry, I don't have specs handy - but it
works with de0 when placed in my old PC - and it works with both tulip and
another modules under linux)
FWIW - the card works just fine on this computer using Linux and
Win98, so I am sure that this is FreeBSD related and not hardware related
(directly anyway) problem.
I can get more particulars on the NIC later if necessary.
Tom Veldhouse
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