In article <3FFE184241A4D111AA5200A0C9252793334F30@ntexch1.xsis.Xerox.COM> emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com (Eric McWhorter) writes:
>I have a useless 400 MHZ Dell PC in my office, i.e. it runs NT 4.0.  I'd
>like to run NetBSD.  Pardon this really horrible email software.  Promise,
>I'll replace it as soon as I can run NetBSD.
>
>When I boot a floppy that has boot.fs from the 1.3.2 tree, I get the
>following messages from the kernel:
>
>vendor 0x1067 product 0x7113 (<can't remember this part>) at pci 0 dev 7
>function 3 not configured.
>vendor 0x1067 product 0x9055 (ethernet network revision 0x24) at pci 0 dev 7
>function 0 not      configured.
>
>The ethernet is builtin on the motherboard and has a 3com chipset.  I can't
>load NetBSD via any network service.  I assume these kernel messages are
>somehow relevant.  Anyway, should I try to load from a local disk and assume
>my ethernet card will work once I can build a kernel, or should I just
>disable the on-board ethernet (assuming that's even possible) and buy an
>ethernet card?

This is the 3c905B which has the old PIO interface stripped and only a DMA
interface present. Unfortunately our 3com driver does not currently support
DMA...

christos