Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:43:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble getting cable connection working Message-ID: <200106091743.NAA01484@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <nkd4itcbm68emd5csfu6n0ek68r126edi2@4ax.com> from "John Murphy" at Jun 09, 2001 03:50:34 PM
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I don't dual boot with windows. Sorry for the confusion. I used a windows boot disk to get a DOS prompt so I could run the diagnostic off of the DOS driver disk. What is very strange about this card is there is a tgz file that is used to create Linux Drivers and there is a link to go to to get updated drivers for FreeBSD. This card must have worked on some machine somewhere, but sadly enough it does not seem to work on mine with FreeBSD. At any rate, I went and purchased an Intel NIC from the BSD mall. I think I can rest assurred that the Intel NIC will work fine. Ian In the last episode, John Murphy stated... > > "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Well I think I typed it in wrong earlier. I had > > > >ifconfig_al0="DHCP" > > > > in rc.conf. I added your suggestion and I still am not getting a > >MAC address for this card. I ran the DOS diag on it and the MAC is > >00:03:6D:15:C4:ED. For some reason, BSD is not getting this info. I think > >this may be why the card is not working. I did get this error a few times > >before adding the line for the loopback. > > > >Jun 8 21:07:39 scarlet /kernel: arp: 00:50:e4:80:28:2a is using my IP > >address 0.0.0.0! > > > > as well as > > > >Jun 8 21:48:12 scarlet /kernel: arp: 00:30:65:4c:1f:52 is using my IP > >address 0.0.0.0! > > > > I have no idea what these other MAC addresses are. I go from the > >ethernet card, to the cable modem. The cable modem may have a MAC but why > >would I get two different MAC's in these errors. Should I take back this > >NIC and get a different one? Any suggestions? I only paid 25$ for this > >one and would like to get it to work. > > Might be worth trying a reboot from cold straight into FreeBSD. I read > somewhere that some drivers (vr I think) have problems similar to yours > when dual booting with windows. > > Just a thought > John. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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