Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:37:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: Mary Lee <lyl001@coes.LaTech.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910211834490.70681-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991021144552.00799410@coes.latech.edu>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Mary Lee wrote: > I am trying to configure a pentium 90 with 24 megs of ram to work as a > gateway for a local area network... I'd suggest that you make the RAM 32MB or 48MB. You might hit swap and slow down occationally otherwise. (Unless this is a very small network.) > i have 2 pnp 10/100 pci network cards, and an hp vectra xm series 3 5/90 > onboard lancard (3 lan cards all togeather) > This is the problem... > on bootup: > rl0 <RealTek...>rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci 0.2.0 > Ethernet Address: 00:00:e8:81:32:31 > autoneg not complete, no carrier > rl1<RealTek...>rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci 0.2.0 > Ethernet Address: 00:00:e8:81:32:d1 > autoneg not complete, no carrier > lnc1 <PCNet pci...> rev 0x02 int a irq 9 pci 0.6.0 > pcnet -32 VL-Bus address 08:00:09:c3:d1:fc > ... > lnc1 Heartbeat error --SQE test failed > loss of carrier during transmit -- Net error? > > ------------------------------------------------- > none of these cards are conected, and i haven't figured out how to > configure the pnp cards i boot -c , and type pnp 1 os, but nothing, > i'm not sure the bois has pnp support, but it does asign the rt mac addrss > for the lan card.... I can't help with the PnP stuff, but it looks to me like your ethernet card is a 10/100 card that can't figure out if it needs to operate as a 10Mb/s or 100Mb/s card. This could be something as simple as needing to plug it into a hub before turning it on. Good luck, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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