Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:48:04 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Phelip Cray" <phelipc@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: NICs Message-ID: <004101c09264$408644a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010208183539.5647.qmail@web12402.mail.yahoo.com>
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Your probably working with a box of old ISA nics. PCI nics are generally all autodetected by FreeBSD. Most experienced network admins have seen all sorts of Ethernet nics and can readily identify any of them that you happen to pull out of a scrap pile. If your not adept at identifying NICs in this way then your probably best off temporairly loading Windows 95 and using it's autodetection feature to figure out what you have. Then go to the manufacturers website and download the docs for them. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Phelip Cray > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:36 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: NICs > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > I got another questions for you all. I hope you can > help me out n this one :) ! > > Well, I am trying to install a NIC in my BSD box. > > As I whole bounch of them and I know most of them > don't really work I have been sticking each one in my > pc, booting and then doing an ifconfig -a . > > In most of the cases no new adapter appears. In one > case ( a 3com ) I could see the interface ep0 there. > > My question to you all is, is there any better way to > test NICs than just using ifconfig to check if the > interface is there? > > Again I thank your help, > > phelip > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > 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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