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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:21:19 -0700
From:      Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
To:        Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mx0??
Message-ID:  <19764.991207@v-wave.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912071417180.59827-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>
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on 12/7/1999 12:20 PM, gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com wrote:
> I am trying to get freeBSD installed using LinkSys internet cards. The
> card is detected as mx0 but then it gives the ethernet address of the card
> as 255.255.255.255. That seems weird to me. Also, it says something like
> can't send setup frame or something close to that. Is there something
> wrong with these cards and FreeBSD? i read something in the archives that
> had steps to take to make these cards work. Does anybody know about that?
> Also, I can't find the URL again, does anybody know the URL? Thanks..bye

FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Mon Nov  8 00:25:16 MST 1999

(yeah I know I'm behind)

Nope,  the  LinkSys (LNE100TX v2.0) cards work fine (mx#) I'm using two of them
in my
BSD box:

Cablemodem NIC:
- ---------------
mx0: <LC82C115 PNIC II 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x25 int a irq 12 on pci0.9.0
mx0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:32:eb:7c
mx0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps)

LAN NIC:
- --------
mx1: <LC82C115 PNIC II 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x25 int a irq 10 on pci0.13.0
mx1: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:32:eb:80
mx1: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)

just  added  the  mx0  driver to my kernel config. Also, make sure the
pnp0 and the pci0:

controller pci0
controller pnp0
device mx0

also make sure you have:

pseudo-device ether
pseudo-device  bpfilter 4 (optional)
options INET

my setup for my cards in /etc/rc.conf:

network_interfaces="mx0 mx1 lo0"
ifconfig_mx0="DHCP" (auto-assigned ip#)
ifconfig_mx1="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"

when all is said and done you should see something like (ifconfig -a):

mx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.255
        ether 00:a0:cc:32:eb:7c 
        media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX <full-duplex>
        100baseTX <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
        10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
mx1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:a0:cc:32:eb:80 
        media: 100baseTX <full-duplex>
        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX <full-duplex>
        100baseTX <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
        10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>

hope that helps ya...

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