From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 13:36:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8083E37B416 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 13:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss11232 (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C0BD18EB; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:36:27 +1300 (NZDT) From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: Josh Paetzel Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:35:31 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: e'net card problems + e'net card autoconfig Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3BF8E073.146.1F1C57B@localhost> In-reply-to: <20011116113936.A727@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3BF4FE87.25495.CF57183@localhost>; from rshea@opendoor.co.nz on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:54:47AM +1300 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Josh - > > I looked in the source file for the ste driver, and I didn't find the Thanks for the detective work on the source code > > The install uses the GENERIC kernel which comes with drivers for a lot > of different ethernet cards. Provided you are still running GENERIC, > the kernel should pick up the card on boot. In fact I've rebuilt the kernel to support firewalling but I think that by following your description that if i had to change either of the cards I could do it. I was just a bit concerned from what you were saying that with a non- GENERIC kernel the range of card support is reduced ? Is it in fact reduced to those cards that were in place at the time the kernel was rebuilt ? If so I might be stuffed if the new nic required a new driver ? ITRW the two nics are pretty generic (one's a D-LINK DFE 550TX and the other is something similarly mainstream) and when I buy my 'standby' nic I will make efforts to buy the same so that the issue of different drivers doesn't arise. However if you or anyone else has any thoughts on what the impact of having a non-GENERIC kernel is when you need to change nics I would be interested to hear. > The configuration of the > card is only done automatically in the install if you are using DHCP, I'm not using DHCP but as I say I'm quite happy with the manual instructions you have provided, thanks. > > Hope this helps. > It did, thanks. richard shea. ***************************************************** Open Door Ltd PO Box 119-46 Wellington, NZ PH +64 4 384 7639 FX +64 4 384 7672 ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message