3com officeconnect 10/100 NIC not detected

[Aaron Burke]

> 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.