From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 18:43:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shawn.megadeth.org (unknown [63.169.72.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD81337B4E5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by shawn.megadeth.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9MJHrY02229; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:17:53 GMT (envelope-from shawn) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:17:53 +0000 From: Shawn Ramsey To: "Marco A. Barbosa S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install 2 PCI NICs that are the same? Message-ID: <20001022191753.A2194@shawn.megadeth.org> References: <200010212259.PAA08160@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010212259.PAA08160@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx>; from mabs@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx on Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:59:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Marco A. Barbosa S. wrote: > > hello... > > I ran into a problem with a machine (pentium pro 200) that > had two NICs (one isa and one pci) but when I changed those to > a newer Pentium II machine, the isa card stopped working... > so I wondered if I could install 2 PCI cards in the same > machine easily... I did some checking out and I never saw > anything on the freebsd site... do I have to do something > special to the kernel? because there is only one entry for > that kind of NIC (fxp0 in my case)... I figured that maybe > I would have to add another entry, but I did not know if > there had to be something done to /dev to make it work > because just adding fxp1 to the kernel sounded to simple... > > anyway... I remember someone else telling me that he had tried > to do something like that somewhere else and it did not work... so... > > any help is appreciated. You only need one entry in your kernel config file for PCI cards. So an "options fxp" is all you need for 2 PCI Intel cards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message