From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 10 06:34:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA11103 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.multinet.net (helix.multinet.net [204.138.173.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA11098 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vicyu.bgi.on.ca (vicyu.bgi.on.ca [204.191.112.3]) by mail.multinet.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA10587 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:29:10 GMT Message-Id: <199606101329.NAA10587@mail.multinet.net> X-Sender: admin@multinet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 07:50:55 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: admin@mail.multinet.net (graydon hoare) Subject: Ethernets are supposed to work, right? Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi -- I recently posted that I was having trouble getting the network install done, it seems to be a problem in the driver of some sort, I've eliminated the possibility of my router or segment being the problem, but I just cannot believe that FreeBSD's support is so lousy for ethernet cards -- I've tried 5 cards so far, of which only 1 is even recognized by the install/probe boot disk, and it still failes to initialize the device. These are standard ethernet cards -- intel etherpros, SMCs etc. I must be doing something wrong. Did anyone meet with some serious head-smacking when configuring ethernet cards, anyone who might share a little secret here? The machine is a genuineintel IBM PS/Valuepoint 486/dx2-50 (I can hear you groaning) with 32mb and an adaptec SCSI controller with 2 units, 1GB seagate drive and a sony CDROM (the local store is all out of the walnut creek CDs, hence the network install). It's all quite "normal" hardware, shouldn't be having any trouble at all. thanks for any input.