Network card issues
Jason A. Crome
crome at devnetinc.com
Tue Sep 16 16:53:21 PDT 2003
I am attempting to get my network card running under FreeBSD 5.1 Release, and
it is unfortunately being a headache. My particular network setup requires
DHCP, and when the boot process attempts to start the DHCP client, my adapter
does not receive an address. Strangely enough, when booting with the GENERIC
kernel, I have no such issues - my adapter gets an IP address just fine.
My PC has a 3com 3c905c network adapter installed. I have added the following
entries to my kernel configuration file to support it:
device miibus
device xl
I have also attached my kernel config file in hopes it will be of some use.
Any thoughts or insights are most definitely appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Jason A. Crome
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#
# DAEMON - Kernel configuration for FreeBSD desktop.
#
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident DAEMON
options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK
options SCHED_4BSD #4BSD scheduler
options INET #InterNETworking
options IPSEC
options IPSEC_ESP
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL #Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
options NFSCLIENT #Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER #Network Filesystem Server
options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, requires NFSCLIENT
options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS #Pseudo-filesystem framework
options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 #Compatible with FreeBSD4
options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
# output. Adds ~128k to driver.
options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
# output. Adds ~215k to driver.
options QUOTA
# Debugging for use in -current
options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS
# Bus drivers ;)
device isa
device eisa
device pci
# Floppy drives
device fdc
# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata
device atadisk
device atapicd
#device pst
options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
# SCSI peripherals
device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
# Terminals and displays
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
device sc
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
# Floating point support - do not disable.
device npx
# Serial (COM) ports
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
# Parallel port
device ppc
device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt # Printer
device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
device ppi # Parallel port interface device
#device vpo # Requires scbus and da
# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device miibus # MII bus support
device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
device random # Entropy device
device loop # Network loopback
device ether # Ethernet support
device tun # Packet tunnel.
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device md # Memory "disks"
device sl
device ppp
# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
#device udbp # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device ulpt # Printer
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device ums # Mouse
device urio # Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device uscanner # Scanners
# FireWire support
device firewire # FireWire bus code
device sbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da)
# Sound Card
device pcm
device midi
device seq
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