From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 19:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4503.mail.yahoo.com (web4503.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.105.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C627F37B541 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strbenjr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000812023002.12263.qmail@web4503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [192.251.173.7] by web4503.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:30:02 PDT Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Hacker Jr Subject: Re: Re: Router "ie2?" issue To: list DC-FBSD , questions FBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Problems almost solved! I was able to get two of the Intel NIC cards to work properly. The problem was my understanding of the "iomem 0xd0000" value and how to set it in the kernel config. I still cannot get "ie0" to work. "ie1 & 2" work better than fine. I also purchased an "SMC 8216c" card($3.00) and decided to use that instead of the Intel at "ie0". Now I have "ed0, ie1, ie2" (plus my xl0). The three are working GREAT and the speed increase over the 3c509 cards (ep0,1,2) is at least 4 times faster and NO Lockups!! When LINT says the "ep" driver is buggy it's not kidding!! I still have ONE real problem. The machine seems to be working fine and routes properly but If I tell it to reboot it will hang right after the "syncing drive ...X X done" comes up. If I boot the machine with my "10Mb-NIC-less" kernel then it will reboot properly. Any ideas?? Also, the ieX driver defaults to "msize=32768~" Is there a way to tell it to default to 16384 in the kernel config?? (msize 16384 or 0x4000 gets a syntax error) --- Ben Hacker Jr wrote: > > Hello... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > I am not a reader on the FreeBSD Questions list so > please respond directly if you are from that list. > > I should have asked what kind of ISA NIC works > best before buying... > > I am having the hardest time getting three > Intel EtherExpress NIC's to work on this machine. > (Intel PCLA8100 EtherExpress 16 ISA 10BT RJ45, BNC, > AUI. ISA Card -- Intel original) $7.00ea > > I am running: > $ uname -a > FreeBSD me.work.com 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE > #8: > Fri Aug 11 14:59:43 EDT 2000 > me@gate.work.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GATE-5 i386 > $ > > This box (HP Vectra)is a router and I am > getting rid of my three 3c509 cards due to > problems with the "ep" driver. > > Looking at the KERNEL config file section for the > ISA NIC's: > # ISA Ethernet NICs. > #device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 > iomem 0xd8000 > #device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 > iomem 0xd0000 > device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 ** > iomem 0x00000 > #device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 > #device ex0 at isa? port? net irq ? > # > > I don't know what to do with this "iomem 0xd0000" > parameter. I have tried setting the card to > "NO Memory mapped" and removed the IOMEM but if the > card is present the system won't even boot. > > When I try to configure the IOMEM to match the > card I just get a error saying the "Kernel > mapped location doesn't match the card mapped > location" > > The card setup program only gives me choices like: > cc00 > d000 > d400 > etc... > > Can anyone help?? > ===== ===== -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- Ben Hacker Jr Technical Specialist Computer Sciences Corporation (703) 289-3477 MC 291 bhacker1@csc.com 3170 Fairview Park Drive strben@altavista.com Falls Church, VA 22304 -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message