3com officeconnect 10/100 NIC not detected

Aaron Burke aburke at nullplusone.com
Fri Aug 22 07:44:31 PDT 2003


> Aaron Burke wrote:
>
> >>I've plugged in two 3com OfficeConnect 10/100 3CSOHO100B-TX in my
> >>freebsd 4.8 box and they are not detected. Do I have to enable some
> >>support in the kernel ?
> >>
> >>
> >Just make sure your kernel config file has the following line in it.
> >device          xl              # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
> >
> >This will give the following on startup:
> >xl0: <3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect> port 0xe400-0xe47f mem
> >0xec001000-0xec00107f irq 12 at device 9.0 on pci0
> >xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:66:5c:36
> >miibus1: <MII bus> on xl0
> >xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus1
> >xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> >
> >The funny thing is that this driver is in the GENERIC kernel.
> >Do you get any messages related to xl0 in dmesg?
> >
> >
> >
> >>Cheers Hannes
> >>
> >>
> >No problem.
> >
> >
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> I'm running GENERIC kernel, and no xl0 related messages in dmesg.
What release of FreeBSD is this? Is it release, stable, or current?




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