Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:48:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: "Marco A. Barbosa S." <mabs@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install 2 PCI NICs that are the same? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10010222133250.935-100000@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <200010212259.PAA08160@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx>
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In fact most people would recommend using two of the same NIC. With two pci NIC's in the machine it will have no trouble loading the driver for both. The only problem would arise if both Nic's were hardwired to use the same irq. (rare but not unheard of in really cheap nics) Any decent nic will be configureable, usually using an unfortunately Dos utility. Tim On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, 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. > > thanks > > Marco A. Barbosa S. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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