From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 23:49:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6877D16A41F for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from muse.calarts.edu (muse.calarts.edu [198.182.157.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEEAC43D45 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:49:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from [198.182.157.175] (not-in-use.calarts.edu [198.182.157.175] (may be forged)) by muse.calarts.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j7ANnef00011; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42FA92B5.30800@calarts.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:50:13 -0700 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000501c59e02$6ceece00$0200a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <000501c59e02$6ceece00$0200a8c0@satellite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: two dc cards on 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:49:45 -0000 dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to get a pair of netgear cards to work on a 5.4-RELEASE-p6 > box. My rc.conf looks as follows: > > ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" > ifconfig_dc1="inet 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.255" > > When i only have one dc card in the box dc0 everything works, the box gets a > dhcp ip. Put the second one in regardless whether or not the ifconfig dc1 > line is uncommented and two things happen, first i get continuous watchdog > timeouts from dc0, second dc0 does not get an IP. As i said the second card > doesn't have to be configured, just in the box and it happens, i've checked > i/o and irq's neither conflict between the two cards. One thing, with a > single dc card the media is set to ethernet autoselect <100base-TX > full-duplex and it's listed as active. Put the second card in and dc0 shows > media ethernet autoselect but for media type i have none and status is > listed as no carrier, i believe this is the reason for the lack of a dhcp > ip, my question is i don't understand why. I've tried: > ifconfig_dc0_mediaopt="100base-TX, full-duplex" > but the system didn't like that. I'd like to tell fbsd specifically what > mode these cards are to be probed to in, but nothing seems to work, and this > only occurs when the second card is in the box. I've tried three separate > cards, all give the same behavior. > Some urgency! Any help greatly appreciated. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > try a static address and fixed 100/full put this in your rc.conf and reboot *note* this is one line replace with an ip that works for your network ifconfig_dc0="inet x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" *note* this is one line replace with an ip that works for your network ifconfig_dc1="inet x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute of the Arts 661-253-7732 smurphy@calarts.edu