From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 14:10:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA00974 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 14:10:38 -0700 Received: from iss100.b400.cbe.ab.ca (ISS100.B400.CBE.AB.CA [164.166.4.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00968 for ; Wed, 3 May 1995 14:10:35 -0700 Received: from net02 (Net02.B400.CBE.AB.CA) by CBE.AB.CA (PMDF V4.3-13 #5915) id <01HQ2J3TWOF49BW2VW@CBE.AB.CA>; Wed, 03 May 1995 14:41:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 14:41:22 -0600 From: netmgr02@CBE.AB.CA (Glen Larwill) Subject: Re: 3c509 question. X-Sender: netmgr02@iss100.b400.cbe.ab.ca To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <01HQ2J3U4PRM9BW2VW@CBE.AB.CA> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Hi folks. This may be a faq, but i didn't find in it the faq. :) >> >>After venturing away from the 386/Net/FreeBSD scene for a while (i ran >>386bsd-0.1 and NetBSD-0.8 when they first came out....Yoweee) I've >>got FreeBSD-2.0RELEASE running on my machine. I just got the bindist >>installed, and it boots fine. The problem is that i can't get the >>ethernet interface (a 3c509, ep0) to come up. The 3c509 i've got is a >>combo card (BNC, AUI, and TP connectors). I'm using the TP interface. It >> >>Is there some flag i need to pass to ifconfig to make it use the TP >>interface? if so, what's the syntax? > >Yes, "link2". You should add it to the end of the ifconfig line in >/etc/hostname.ep0. > >>Thanx for any help! >> >>...alex... > >-- >Justin T. Gibbs >============================================== >TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 > Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus >============================================== Justin, I am experiencing the same problem with the same setup as Alex. I have the "link2" at the end of the line in /etc/hostname.ep0. This 3c509 card will work on the AUI port, but the 10T port doesn't work. As Alex mentioned, both ports work fine running under DOS. The boot process does seem to detect that the card is using the 10T port Do you (or anyone else on this list) have any other suggestions? Glen Larwill - glarwill@cbe.ab.ca _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ PH (403) 294-8380, FAX (403) 294-8431 _/ _/ _/ _/ Network Programmer Analyst _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ Calgary Board of Education _/ _/ _/ _/ Calgary Alberta, Canada _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/