Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:55:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dara@salk.edu (Dara Ghahremani) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing network cards Message-ID: <199701281755.KAA08472@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970127202206.29469A-100000@helmholtz> from "Dara Ghahremani" at Jan 27, 97 08:33:40 pm
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> I am having some trouble installing two 100BaseT-capable ethernet network > cards on two different freeBSD machines and am wondering if there's > someone who can help. [ ... ] > However, upon booting the cards are not recognized. I was given these > driver IDs by a colleague and do not see them listed in the FreeBSD > documentation. Does anyone have experience with using these cards? > I'd appreciate any comments that might lead to a solution. Run the command "ifconfig -a"; on my machine, I get: lp0: flags=810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500 de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 lp0 is my parallel port, tun0 is the tunnel driver, sl0 is the SL/IP driver, and lo0 is the loopback. This leaves de0 unaccounted for, and that's my ethernet card. You need to see if you have an ethernet card that is seen by the system... and then use that name if you do. If you don't have a card seen by the system, then you need to run the command "dmesg | more" and read through the boot log to see if you can see an ethernet card being identified. If not, you may not have a driver in your kernel. I seem to remember the card you have is a fairly recent addition, so unless you are running a fairly recent FreeBSD, you may not have the driver at all. If you don't, then you should get the driver from -current: /sys/i386/isa/if_ex.c /sys/i386/isa/if_exreg.h /sys/i386/isa/if_ixreg.h If I remember correctly. Look in the code and contact the author for more detailed instructions, if necessary. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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