On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, John Baxter wrote:

> the netgear fa410tx should be supported by the ne2000 driver. the card is
> found during install. from reading notes on the internet about this card,
> it appears to have a problem auto-sensing the speed. a freebsd utility
> called fa_select sets the speed and solves the problem, or so the doc. says.
> (i get ne3 timeout errors when it tries to find my dhcp server). problem is
> the fa_select will not compile in the form i find it on the internet, the
> i386_set_ioperm() call is not correct. is there another way with open 2.8 to
> solve my problem? is there a fa_select for openbsd?

Support for this card is now in -current, so you don't need to run this
utility to make it work. You do, however, still have to configure the
media manually with ifconfig (or add the appropriate bits to hostname.ne3).

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Aaron Campbell (aaronmonkey.org || aaronopenbsd.org)
http://www.monkey.org/~aaron

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