Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:04:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: apatron@optel.net (Ing. Alfredo Patron Schacht) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Message-ID: <199609120204.TAA22032@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199609120231.UAA03172@optel.net> from "Ing. Alfredo Patron Schacht" at Sep 11, 96 08:30:25 pm
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Ing. Alfredo Patron Schacht wrote: > > Dear sirs I have a problem configuring a 3com ethernet card to my pc using > FreeBsd 2.1 > I have to interfaces lo0 and lp0 > What I know is that the card is lp0 > Please help me with this matter. neither lo0 or lp0 is a 3com ethernet card. lo0 is the "loopback" interface. every installation has one it is not a physical card, but rather a data path that FreeBSD uses to talk to itself lp0 is your parallel port, sometimes called a printer port what you want to see is one of these ep0 3com 3c509 ie0 3com 3c507 el0 3com 3c501 if you have a 3c509 that FreeBSD does not see. use your 3com config diskette to disable plug-n-pray on that card. note the irq and the i/o port addr you may have to boot with a "-c" flag and config the kernel to see the card. jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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