From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 14:12: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C3437B52E for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.67]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:16:27 -0700 Message-ID: <390CA199.60AC0F9@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:11:53 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Parquette Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C905B-COMBO and 4.0-RELEASE not playing together References: <390C9E1F.1666E2BC@twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Parquette wrote: > > I installed 4.0-RELEASE over the Internet on a PCI machine using the > on-board NE2000 clone. I have a 3C905B-COMBO in the machine as well. > > Under 3.4-RELEASE, the card was known as XL1 and worked like a charm. I > installed 4.0-RELEASE in the last week or so and the card is known as > XL0. ifconfig -a shows the card with the correct static address. > According to the messages, the card is awake. > > Highlights from ifconfig xl0: flags=8843(up, > broadcast,running,simplex,multicast) mtu 1500 media: 10base2/BNC > (10baseT/UTP) status: active When I installed 4.0, I had to specify media and mediaopt. I wanted it to run 100baseTX and full-duplex. I can't show you my ifconfig right now because I tried to convert some audio to files and ended up clobbering Win98se and I'm getting it back right now. You should be able to ifconfig manually until it works. That system was also very sensitive to my network_interfaces="xl0 lo0". Kent > > I can ping the IP address assigned to the card without problem. When I > try to ping another host on the 10base-2 network, I get 'ping: sendto: > host is down'. If I try TCPDUMP, it gives me nothing. The counts are > also zero when I terminate TCPDUMP. > > >From another machine, when I TCPDUMP the same segment at the same time, > I have activity captured. When I ping the address assigned to the > 3C905B-COMBO from another machine, I get 'ping: sendto: host is down'. > > I've also tried tinkering with the card's configuration with the > Etherdisk with no luck. The only other piece of information I can think > of that may be important is, I'm using DHCP (dhclient with an empty > .conf file) on the ed0 card (cablemodem network) and static addresses on > the xl0 (home LAN.) the xl0 interface has dhcpd set up. This machine's > role in life will be a gateway and dhcp server. (Maybe some other > things later.) > Anybody know how I can get this card running under 4.0-RELEASE? > Cheers... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message