FreeBSD 5.1 on ASUS P4C800 (onboard NIC problems, 3Com 3C940)

Han Hwei Woo hhwoo at argosy.ca
Fri Jul 4 02:41:52 PDT 2003


I don't believe the 3C940 is currently supported in FreeBSD (nothing about
it in hardware notes for 5.1 i386). So, you can try googling to see if
anyone's working on a driver for it. Chances are however that you'll have to
use another NIC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gab" <gab at optimized.org>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: FreeBSD 5.1 on ASUS P4C800 (onboard NIC problems, 3Com 3C940)


> Hello,
>
> I successfully installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my ASUS P4C800 motherboard. The
> only remaining problem is that sysinstall did not find any ethernet
> device during the installation. The onboard NIC is a 3Com 3C940.
>
> What should I exactly do in order to make the system detect this 3Com
> 3C940 ethernet device and make it work properly?
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Gab
>
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