Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:25:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: admin@mail.multinet.net (graydon hoare) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernets are supposed to work, right? Message-ID: <199606101425.JAA14290@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199606101329.NAA10587@mail.multinet.net> from "graydon hoare" at Jun 10, 96 07:50:55 am
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> 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? Are you really sure that all your settings are right, and the card is someplace that FreeBSD is looking for it? > 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. Anyone who thinks an IBM PS/anything is "quite normal hardware"... nevermind. > thanks for any input. Check what you're doing. Try a regular PC. SMC cards work fine, NE2000's work fine, others work fine but I generally don't use them. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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