Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:28:37 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: "'Chameleon'" <swen@wavefire.com>, "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Network Card Troubleshooting (was How To Configure 2nd NIC?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011101328210.4795-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF708@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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I had trouble with a ne2000 on irq9 due to the vga card using it. On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chameleon [mailto:swen@wavefire.com] > > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 8:39 AM > > To: 'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'; Drew Tomlinson > > Subject: Re: Network Card Troubleshooting (was How To Configure 2nd > > NIC?) > > > > > > first thing... do the nics have boot proms in it? if they > > No boot proms. Just simple 10-baseT ISA network cards. > > > don't then as far > > as i know, > > the iomem won't affect anything... > > what does ifconfig -a give you? > > Nothing valid at the moment because I tried recompiling my kernel with the > following lines hoping that the probe would fill in the details. (I think > that's what "at isa?" means?): > > device ed0 at isa? > device ed1 at isa? > > Anyway, only ed0 was found. ed1 was not defined so now I'm recompiling with > the following: > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x240 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 > device ed1 at isa? port 0x260 irq 11 iomem 0xd0000 > > I assume the iomem parameter for ed0 was determine during setup somehow. I > didn't write the line originally. It was in my GENERIC config after the > original install of 4.0. The other interesting part is that the port and > irq were set to 0x280 and 10, respectively but the card was set to 0x240 and > 9. The motherboard doesn't have PnP but the network card still worked. > > In any case, I thought it would be better to set it correctly. Then when I > added the 2nd NIC, I just copied the first line and changed the values. > > > did you add 'ed1' to your network interfaces in rc.conf? > > Yes. Here's my entries: > > network_interfaces="ed0 ed1 lo0" > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" > > Am I missing something? > > > i recently had a problem with an NE2000 nic in a NEC which > > had onboard > > video and sound > > that used most of the irq's... > > i got around it somehow by defining the same nic with different irq > > settings in the kernel. > > I don't think this is the problem here. They are just simple network cards > with no added features. > > Thanks for your help! I'd really like to get this working so I can venture > into firewalls, NAT, and routing. That should be fun, :) > > Drew > > > Swen > > > > > > At 10:37 PM 11/9/00, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I do have a utility but there is no choice for setting > > anything like > > >iomem. > > > > I picked different settings for what they call I/O base > > address which > > > > corresponds to the 0x240 line on ed0 and the 0x260 line > > on ed1. I can > > >also > > > > set the IRQs which I did; ed0=9 & ed1=11. There are no > > conflicts AFAIK as > > > > self-testing shows both cards working OK. Do you have > > any other ideas? > > > > > >Well, there is a conflict, as the cards are both using the > > same iomem space. > > >They are both mapping memory to the same address space in > > RAM and therefore > > >are overwriting each other. If there really is no way to > > change that then > > >you will not be able to use the cards together. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The > > > > cards are LinkSys Ether16 LAN cards if that helps. > > > > > > > > > of a software utility. Plug and Play has kind of removed us > > > > > from the joys > > > > > of configuring hardware, but most cards require one or more > > > > > irqs, a range of > > > > > > > > Yeah, I haven't done this for a long time. Brings back memories. > > > > > > > > I know I keep saying it but thank you again for your time > > on this. I > > >really > > > > appreciate it and am anxious to take on the task of > > setting up NAT and > > > > filters. Now if I could just get both interfaces working... :) > > > > > > > > > > > > >The pleasure is all mine. I got a lot of help from the > > FreeBSD community > > >when I was first starting out, and now it's payback time. > > > > > >Josh > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > Pobody's Nerfect! > > > > > > > > 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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