From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat May 11 0:16:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from softhome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EBD37B400 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 00:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jim ([24.54.234.227]) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sat, 11 May 2002 01:16:21 -0600 From: jameswu@SoftHome.net To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 00:16:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Newbie: What Network Driver Message-ID: <3CDC62D1.3377.3D5ECE@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I recently downloaded and installed FreeBSD. I am quite new to the Linux/Unix systems and would like some guidance. I followed all of the rules of the installation guide. Before the installation I had made a hardware inventory list as according to the instructions, and I for my ethernet adapter I have a NetGear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter with IRQ 09 and I/O port 3800-38FF. I searched in the hardware listings and found it in the National Semiconductor DP83815 Fast Ethernet NICs section under a sis driver. In the kernal setup in the beginning of the installation, I chose "Start kernel configuration in full-screen visual mode", and collapsed the driver list.There I see 5 network adapters. However none of the drivers seems to be sis. So I began experimenting with the two possible adapters, the NE2000 PCMCIA with ed driver and another driver (don't remember its name but it is sn). I (one only at a time of course, not simultaneosly) configured their IRQ port to 09 and did not change their I/O range. They obviously did not work, but I am confused as I received different responses. For the NE2000 on 0-300 I/O and set up the network, nothing responded - (1. Trying to enable DHCP returned errors, and 2. when I manually enter the information LYNX responded with "Host cannot be reached", and 3. No ping requests were returned), so I decided that it wasn't the right driver. Next I tried the sn one, changed IRQ port to 09 but did not touch the I/O port which IIRC was set default at 280. The results - DHCP returned errors, when input by hand LYNX responded with Looking up host and stopping in that stage, and no ping requests were returned either. I am now quite confused. I never touched the I/O ports settings which was set at default of 300 and 280 for the NE2000 and ns respectively, while it was 3800-38FF (different format?) on windows. If both adaptors were wrongly configured (which I suppose they have to be) then why did they return with different results? As I am an extreme newbie please enlighten me on this matter. I will greatly appreciate any help. - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message