Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:23:21 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: kf7nn@kf7nn.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Giap Vu <giqu@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Changing network card Message-ID: <199805121323.OAA12603@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980512080707.kf7nn@kf7nn.com> References: <199805121109.MAA00176@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <XFMail.980512080707.kf7nn@kf7nn.com>
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That's probably good advice. I had a borrowed Intel card of some sort for a while that was crap even when it did work, but I don't think it was an EE16. I must be getting mixed up over what works and what doesn't :( Anyway, you can pick up a cheap'n'cheerful NE2000 clone for about £12 over here, so I imagine for < $20 in the US. My installation instructions will apply equally to that. Scott kf7nn@kf7nn.com said: >dont do it. > >my network card is the intel ether express 16 and i cant install freebsd on that >machine since the driver for that card dont work right on 2.2.6 although >i believe it worked on 2.2.2 fine. > >i think greg sent out a warning earlier about it he said its suffering from >"bitrot" > > >On 12-May-98 Scott Mitchell wrote: >>Giap Vu said: >>>Hi, >>> I want to replace the current network card with an Intel Etherexpress >>>16, but I don't know how. Please help me. By the way I want to use coax >>>cable with the Intel card do I have to tell FreeBSD that during setup or >>>it will autotomatically detect the transceiver type? >>> >> >>Most (all?) of the FreeBSD ethernet drivers won't autodetect the >>transceiver type. You'll need to set this up with the DOS-based setup >>program for the card, as well as configuring the IRQ, I/O port, etc to >>something appropriate for your machine. >> >>On the FreeBSD side, you need to make sure that the driver for the card is >>configured into your kernel. For the EE16 this is the 'ie' driver (I think >>-- someone please correct me if I'm wrong there). >> >>If you're running the GENERIC kernel that was installed when you first >>installed FreeBSD, then you already have this driver. If you've built your >>own kernel since then, make sure you have a line like >> >>device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr >> >>somewhere in your kernel config file, then build a new kernel. You can set >>the card parameters in the config file or just use the '-c' option at boot >>time. >> >>All being well, the card will be detected (look for 'ie0' in the output of >>the 'dmesg' command to confirm this) and just work. >> >> Scott >> >>-- >>=========================================================================== >>Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just >><scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" >>QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >---------------------------------- >E-Mail: kf7nn@kf7nn.com >Date: 12-May-98 >Time: 08:02:37 > >This message was sent by XFMail >---------------------------------- -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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