Bug 20175

Summary: Unknown Ethernet Card
Product: Base System Reporter: ipazarbasi <ipazarbasi>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description ipazarbasi 2000-07-25 14:50:00 UTC 
Simply, FreeBSD does not recognize Netgear FA310TX and Macronix 98715A serie ethernet cards. if you want to receive the screenshots please inform me. I did not find any information concerning these cards from their vendors' web sites.

Here, in the school, there is a big (almost 1500 clients, there are at most 200 clients because of end of curriculum.) and there is a Windows NT Proxy server 2.0 (193.255.106.4 with real IP, and this machine will get 193.255.106.28 with host name personel.fatih.edu.tr). There is just one RedHat Linux 6 client which is different from other NT stuff and set up by me, it serves Computer Engineering web site (cengunix.fatih.edu.tr), works properly and it has NetGear FA310TX Network Card.

I tried many combinations inside the Network Configuration Menu, which can be reached with booting from setup CDs or Diskettes, however, I could not achieve any solution for that. And this card always conflicts with PC Card Controller device which is located at interrupt 10. The name NetGear FA310TX in your "Supported Hardware" list, however, there is not any compatible device in the list of hardware. 

I would be grateful if you help me about this inconvenience.

Thank you very much for your interest,
Best regards.
Ismail PAZARBASI - Electronic Engineer.

Fix: 

there is no fix about this problem.
How-To-Repeat: since this is a kernel inconvenience, it repeats everytime and fails the network.
Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-25 14:58:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fix has been committed in RELENG_{3,4} and HEAD.
Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-25 15:00:57 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: closed->open

Closed in error.  proper close message to follow.
Comment 3 Sheldon Hearn 2000-07-25 15:29:20 UTC 
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 06:42:00 MST, ipazarbasi@usa.net wrote:

> I tried many combinations inside the Network Configuration Menu, which
> can be reached with booting from setup CDs or Diskettes, however,
> I could not achieve any solution for that. And this card always
> conflicts with PC Card Controller device which is located at interrupt
> 10. The name NetGear FA310TX in your "Supported Hardware" list,
> however, there is not any compatible device in the list of hardware.

The driver you should be using seems to be dc(4), for which the manual
page claims support for:

	o NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, D2 or D3 (PNIC 82c169)


You shouldn't need to activate / deactivate anything in the kernel
configuration to get the kernel to probe this device, because it's a PCI
device.

Could you check your dmesg(8) output and see whether it detects dc0?
Better yet, send the dmesg(8) output as follow-up to this PR by mailing
it to <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>, taking care to preserve the
subject line of this message.

Ciao,
Sheldon.
Comment 4 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-25 15:38:57 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Will you let us know what happens once the resource  
allocation issue is addressed?  I completely forgot 
that part of my answer. :-)
Comment 5 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-13 04:02:45 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.