From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 16:46:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (119.222.nas7.ippool.hypercon.com [198.64.222.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51D614CF1 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00329; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:34:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:34:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199908272334.SAA00329@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: N/A@d1o29.telia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Config of ether interface fails In-Reply-To: <99082723583001.00269@domine.leonis.net> References: <99082723583001.00269@domine.leonis.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fredrik Carlen writes: [and I deleted] > What in the am I doing wrong here? The stuff works running Window$ > 95...with the same hardware settings. Unbelievable. > Other than that, FBSD and I are communicating quite happily now. > > /Fredrik > First things first. What happens if you turn off ALL the ethernet cards? And ALL the goodies you might possibly need later on? (You can always boot -c and reenable them.) This will narrow the field to whether the ethernet card is at fault. And why do you think the ethernet card should be at those addresses just because you know they are free? Do you have it in Plug-and-Pray mode? That can really be funky in some 486 BIOSen. Slowly Slowly Catchee Monkee. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message