Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) From: Dara Ghahremani <dara@salk.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing network cards Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970128191107.13285B-100000@helmholtz> In-Reply-To: <199701281755.KAA08472@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Thanks very much for your help. The cards are being recognized in both machines now, but other problems have emerged. 1) On Machine#2, which has the Intel card installed, I can login but upon entering my passwd, the screen freezes and no key presses have any affect. Do you know what may be the cause of this? 2) On Machine#1, there seems to be a conflict w/ the SCSI bus (where the internal drive is connected) and the net card (both in PCI slots). Sometimes both work fine, but most of the time, the SCSI bus is not recognized upon boot. Do you know of any tools which might help sort out this matter? I realize that these questions may be beyond the scope of FreeBSD, but I'm not quite sure yet. Thanks again for your help, Dara On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I am having some trouble installing two 100BaseT-capable ethernet network > > cards on two different freeBSD machines and am wondering if there's > > someone who can help. > > [ ... ] > > > However, upon booting the cards are not recognized. I was given these > > driver IDs by a colleague and do not see them listed in the FreeBSD > > documentation. Does anyone have experience with using these cards? > > I'd appreciate any comments that might lead to a solution. > > Run the command "ifconfig -a"; on my machine, I get: > > lp0: flags=810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500 > de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500 > sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 > lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > > lp0 is my parallel port, tun0 is the tunnel driver, sl0 is the SL/IP > driver, and lo0 is the loopback. > > This leaves de0 unaccounted for, and that's my ethernet card. > > You need to see if you have an ethernet card that is seen by the > system... and then use that name if you do. > > > If you don't have a card seen by the system, then you need to run > the command "dmesg | more" and read through the boot log to see > if you can see an ethernet card being identified. If not, you may > not have a driver in your kernel. I seem to remember the card you > have is a fairly recent addition, so unless you are running a fairly > recent FreeBSD, you may not have the driver at all. If you don't, > then you should get the driver from -current: > > /sys/i386/isa/if_ex.c > /sys/i386/isa/if_exreg.h > /sys/i386/isa/if_ixreg.h > > If I remember correctly. Look in the code and contact the author > for more detailed instructions, if necessary. > > > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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