Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:07:06 -0400 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@myrealbox.com> To: jameswu@SoftHome.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: What Network Driver Message-ID: <02051112070604.78444@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <3CDC62D1.3377.3D5ECE@localhost> References: <3CDC62D1.3377.3D5ECE@localhost>
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This question might be better asked on freebsd-questions, however I will give it a shot. Keep in mind that my advice is worth exactly what you're paying for it. It looks to me like you're working too hard at this. Assuming you have burned yourself a CD, ignore the NICs in the initial kernel set-up. According to my GENERIC kernel file (from 4.3), once you complete the installation sis is built automatically active within the kernel. At that point, you should be able to set your network settings and be done with it. You shouldn't even need to rebuild the kernel. If you are trying to install from ftp, I have no idea what you should do (other than try to come up with a CD). I have no idea why you are getting two different error messages for two different drivers, except possibly that one may be more or differently (in)compatable with the sis driver that you seem to need. BTW, good work on your troubleshooting. Hope this helps, Marci On Saturday 11 May 2002 03:16 am, jameswu@SoftHome.net wrote on Newbie: What Network Driver: | 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 -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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