Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:16:29 -0800 From: ken keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cannot connect on LAN Message-ID: <3672DD2C.DE0D1147@nwlink.com> References: <199812121914.OAA08707@laker.net>
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Steve Friedrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:01:43 -0800, ken keeler wrote:
>
> >fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> > ether 00:a0:c9:90:78:09
> > media: autoselect
>
> Someone else may give you an authoritive answer, but I've noticed on
> this list that some of the ethernet drivers and/or cards don't
> autoselect properly. You should have a diskette that came with the
> card that allows you to change the board's config. Set the "port"
> manually, i.e., one of aui/utp/bnc. And then use the appropriate
> ifconfig media option in /etc/rc.conf. See man fxp for that.
Actually I don't have any disks for any of these cards. The cards came
from running machines that had been upgraded, and thus no disks were
available. For the fxp0 device, I plugged it in to see what would
happen, and that was how it was probed. I just read man fxp, and it says
it's based on Intel i82557 ethernet chip. The number on the chip in the
card is S82557. Is this the same? There is an i on the chip, but not
part of that number. The card appears to be something other than Intel.
I'm going attempt to locate some more info on this card.
For the ed0 device, it has numbers on the back 8013EWC, which seemed to
be just fine for ed0. It is jumper configurable. I made an assumption
that all SMC 8013 cards will work with the ed0 device, but perhaps that
was an error on my part?
--
E=m*(c*c)
Ken Keeler
"Look, it's all a bunch of ones and zeros."
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