Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:11:36 -0500 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: "dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: two 3C905B's in 5.4 Message-ID: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGGEEKJMAD.john@day-light.com> In-Reply-To: <000301c5863f$e6c59fe0$0200a8c0@satellite>
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you may need to set the parameters of the card with a vendor specific utility. depending upon your bios, you may also need to disable pnp (also a vendor specific utility) and then manually set the irq and memory addr. -- John Brooks john@day-light.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of dave > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:42 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: two 3C905B's in 5.4 > > > Hello, > I've got a 5.4 box that's going to be a router. It has two > 3C905B cards > in it and i'm having a blank fill it in as you wish, of a time getting the > cards working. Neither card likes dhcp, sometimes i'll start dhclient and > the cards will work, sometimes they won't. If i give the -v option to > dhclient i get the message network is unreachable, see readme about > broadcast address. I know this isn't a cable modem issue or a > cable, because > i plugged in an old 3c509 isa card and it worked the first time, this fix > isn't practical for this setup. An ifconfig check shows both 905's in > autonegociation mode 100-mbit tx, i'm wondering if i should manually set > them to something, but am unsure as to what. One card one time gave me the > waiting to transmit error message as mentioned in the man page > and it took a > reboot to fix it. I've checked the bios on this box and it's pnp os option > is off. Any help appreciated. If more information is needed ask, > i will send > it. > Thanks. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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