Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 16:00:05 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> To: "Sattler, Rick" <rsattle@uswest.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problem enabling new ethernet card Message-ID: <38974955.B3B58BD0@ds.net> References: <A4BEFCD202C9D211A33100805FA7F535014CA2DB@porex01.dex.uswest.com>
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> > Here are the particulars: > Running FreeBSD v3.1 (will upgrade AFTER I get this all working properly). > The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with an embedded ThunderLan PCI ethernet > chip. Plenty of RAM, plenty of disk. Everything working fine. Added a 3Com > 10/100 PCI ethernet card on the PCI bus, slot 3. As far as I can tell, this > device equates to "device xl0" in the configuration file for my PC. In any > case, I do not have any ethernet device commented out in the configuration > file... I have also added the following to the /etc/rc.conf file for the > card: > Is it possible that the system BIOS disabled the onboard card when you inserted the additional PCI card? Have you tried it with 2 PCI cards, I suspect that will work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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