Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:09:47 -0500 From: Patrick Whalen <patrickwhalen@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC Message-ID: <6D727222-BA87-11D6-857D-003065D743AE@mac.com>
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On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Patrick Whalen wrote: > >> The NIC that I have is actually new. I bought it specifically because >> it was listed in the Hardware Notes. > > Even the manufacturer's datasheet > (http://www.efficient.com/pdf/products/1012_1020.pdf) claims that > FreeBSD is supported. Unfortunately it doesn't go as far as saying > what chipset is used on the card. > >> When I install, or boot -c, I get a list of 6 drivers from which to >> choose. None of them stand out as the correct one. At first, it shows >> 7 >> conflicts. If I get rid of all of them, and then later on go into the >> Networking configuration, the card shows up as an unidentified device, >> or something to that effect. If I choose an arbitrary driver, either >> nothing will show up under Networking, or I will get something like >> faith0. > > The boot time configuration is only for old ISA/EISA cards that cannot > identify themselves to the OS. PCI cards like yours should be > automatically detected by the OS and the correct driver selected. > >> Should I need to choose a driver, or is it automatic? Is there >> something else that I'm missing? Is there anything specific which I >> should look for when I type 'ifconfig'? > > Should be automatic. Can you run 'pciconf -l' (as root) and show the > list the output? That will show the PCI ID numbers of all of the > components on your system and what device (and hence driver) they > correspond to. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH > UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > [forgot to post to the list] Here's the output of pciconf -l chip0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x70308086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 isab0@pci0:7:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x70008086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 atapci0@pci0:7:1: class=0x010180 card=0x00000000 chip=0x70108086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 none0@pci0:7:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x00000000 chip=0x70208086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 none1@pci0:19:0: class=0x020000 card=0x1020111a chip=0x12161113 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 none2@pci0:20:0: class=0x030000 card=0x89015333 chip= 0x89015333 rev=0x16 hdr=0x00 I have 3 pci slots. The card is in the middle one. Of the remaining two slots, one has a modem, and the other is empty. Does it matter where the card goes? Do you have any insight into what faith0 means? Thanks again for your help. patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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