Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:01:43 -0500 From: Eric Thornton <ewthorn2@eos.ncsu.edu> To: Anis Badri <anilinet2k@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0 does not appear Message-ID: <01021320014300.05399@reefbreak.surfbbx> In-Reply-To: <20010212231127.16263.qmail@web3501.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010212231127.16263.qmail@web3501.mail.yahoo.com>
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I have 2 smc EZ isa cards that work great. If you know the addresses and irq, then just boot the kernel and when the 'waiting to boot hit ENTER' prompt comes up, type boot -c to bring up the config program. Highlight visual-mode and then browse though the menu till you find the network driver "ed0". Then, specify the correct settings for the card and exit with save. when the kernel loads, you should see the card recognized automatically(use the command dmesg if you need to look at the message after you boot). However, if you're not sure of the cards specifics, it is slightly more difficult. The trick is you have to go to SMC's site and download thier "EZStart" program, it should be in the drivers section. The ulgy part is, you have to run it from DOS or Windoze. I just used my roomate's win98 machine to make a boot disk specifically to run it. Reboot, start the program and configure the card to whatever you like, or whatever irq you know is availiabe in your system (again-check the kernel boot message to see what is taken). Then save the settings to the cards 'ROM' and reboot back to BSD and run the boot -c step as above. It took me a while playing with the memory addresses and irq's to work, but when it finally is recoginized by the kernel, run '/stand/sysinstall' and run though the NIC setup. Reboot one last time and you should be up and running. Eric On Monday 12 February 2001 06:11 pm, Anis Badri wrote: > > Hello I am a newbie to FreeBSD and wanted to ask about an issue related to > NIC card installation. > > I bought an SMC EZ isa nic card and plugged it into an open ISA slot on my > machine. > > Next I booted up and did the following: > > ping localhost -- It worked > > Next I tried ifconfig ed0 -- and the system returned stating that an ed0 > device was not installed. > > I ran /stand/sysinstall and went through the network configuration menus > but never saw the ed0 device. > > ifconfig -a returned > > ppp0, lp0, s10 but not ed0. > > I am not sure what I am missing. > > My goal is to configure PPPOE so that I can access the internet over the > internet. > > Thanking you in advance for your time. > > Anis T. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > - Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - > only $35 a year! ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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