Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Anup Talukdar <talukdar@local-motion.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, talukdar@paul.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Help : Problems with network interfaces Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615220738.2150e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806121825.OAA14614@local-motion.rutgers.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Anup Talukdar wrote: > I have used a 3Com 3C589C EtherLink III LAN PC Card as the network > interface. I need multicasting enabled on this ethernet > interface. However the interface 'zp0' does not have > multicasting enabled (as shown below in the output of > the command 'ifconfig -a'). > > >zp0: flags=1843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0> mtu 1500 > > inet 128.6.157.141 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 128.6.157.159 > > ether 00:a0:24:63:b9:e7 > I will greatly appreciate, if someone can inform me how to > enable MULTICAST on 'zp0'. You don't, the zp driver doesn't support multicast. Do you need it for your site? > If I remove the 3Com EtheLink III 3C589C and instead insert > a NOTEWORTHY ETHERNET CARD (PC Card), then I cannot access the > network. The output of the command 'ifconfig -a' is as follows : > > /kernel : ze0 : device timeout. isr=03, imr=9f, imask=0000 The NoteWorthy is not compatible with the ze driver, which is for IBM CreditCard Ethernet adapters. I would suggest enabling the laptop PCCARD options in the kernel and rc.conf. This will enable some extended functinality in power management and a more robust pccard handling system (which can support pccard modems). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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