To follow up to myself. I wanted to say that my reference to the mx drivers
was using a different NIC. It was a Linksys 10/100 using PNIC II.
Tom Veldhouse
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeBSD-Current" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 1:30 PM
Subject: de0 (Asante 10baseT tulip) not working with PNP BIOS
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to get my Asante (tulip) card to work under
FreeBSD.
> I used the same card on an older machine (PII-333), but had PNP shut off
in
> the BIOS. My new machine does not have the option to shut off PNP in the
> BIOS (blame Compaq). The de0 device is found and the network is setup as
> expected. However, it never works with "device down" messages when I
> attempt to use it. I looked through a dmesg output and saw it say that
the
> BIOS had not activated the device. Well, if it (the kernel) sees that the
> device is there and not activated, shouldn't it activate it? I
reinstalled
> Linux and it finds the card with a similar message and then activates the
> card using the tulip driver.
>
> I have also noticed that the mx driver under FreeBSD 3.x activates the
> card just fine. The above problem seem specific to the de driver.
>
> I would be happy to give dmesg output, but like I said, I attempted to
> see what Linux did and I don't have access to the output anymore (until I
> reinstall again).
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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