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Date:      Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:33:17 -0800
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Stephen Hovey' <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        'Chameleon' <swen@wavefire.com>, "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Network Card Troubleshooting (was How To Configure 2nd  NIC?)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011101328210.4795-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:shovey@buffnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: Drew Tomlinson
> Cc: 'Chameleon'; 'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: Network Card Troubleshooting (was How To Configure 2nd
> NIC?)
>
>
>
> I had trouble with a ne2000 on irq9 due to the vga card using it.

Thanks but I don't think that's my problem here as the self-tests were OK
using the setup utility with both cards.  Plus the one that is found and
working is using irq 9.  The other is using irq 11.

Drew

> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > > Pobody's Nerfect!
> > >
> > >
> >
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