On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:28:25PM +0200, Marian Dobre wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed FreeBSD 5.0 Sparc64 on a E450 and I'm trying to use > standard PCI ethernet cards.
sparc64 questions should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > According to > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/support.html#ETHERNET > these cards are supposed to be supported but I can't get them to work. > I've tried with both RTL8139 and 3COM905 cards. The cards are detected > by the software but they dont send or receive any packet. I even > recompiled all the software on the box and the kernel. They still don't > work. > This is the output of uname -a > FreeBSD freebsd.onix.ro 5.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat > Jan 18 07:39:17 CET 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM sparc64 > Please let me know if these are are supposed to be working on sparc64 > platforms. You forgot to mention the device name(s). It's possible the drivers do not yet work on sparc64 machines because they contain non-portable code. Kris
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