From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 22:31:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eta.ee.fit.edu (eta.ee.fit.edu [163.118.30.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E9310F3F; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craze@eta.ee.fit.edu) Received: from localhost (craze@localhost) by eta.ee.fit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA10038; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:15:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:15:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: IBM IntelliStation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello All; I was trying to install 3.1 on a IBM intellistation machine;(one of those with 450mhz processor, and 512 ram, ide HD, etc) and I could not get the network card to work. The motherboard has a built-in network card in it, and it can be disabled by the bios. At first I thought it was a 10/100 switching problem, since both the card and the hub was set to autodetect media. However, I figured out that no matter what network card I use, the kernel detects it, and ifconfig -a shows the device in place, however whenever you ifconfig [ep0|fpx0] my.ip.number the machine crashes. I tried eepro100, and 3c509; (with more than few models of 3c509) and it all did the same. I believe there is some sort of incompatibility issue with the built in card, but even if it disabled, I get the same response with other cards. Did anyone installed FreeBSD on a similar machine before? Please help, because I do not want to put back windoze on it. -Can To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message