From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 5: 7:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from azog.public.hq.nasa.gov (azog.public.hq.nasa.gov [198.116.65.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E1814EF5 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 05:07:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@annapurna.com) Received: from platitude (rob-2.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.57.42] (may be forged)) by azog.public.hq.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25161 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 08:07:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991208075659.00bbc520@mail.hq.nasa.gov> X-Sender: rob@mail.nova.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 08:07:09 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rob Winters Subject: Re: mx0?? In-Reply-To: <19764.991207@v-wave.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:21 PM 12/7/99 -0700, Chris Wasser wrote: >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? >Nope, the LinkSys (LNE100TX v2.0) cards work fine (mx#) I'm using two of >them >in my >BSD box: A data point for you. I have two Linksys NC100's. These may be the LNE100TX re-packaged, and then they may not; I don't have any for comparison. I was completely unsuccessful in getting two of these cards to work on the PCI bus of this crappy Dell P60 motherboard I'm running. I finally gave up, and installed one ISA card and one PCI card just to get on with life. Error messages varied, including those of the continuous "unable to send", "unable to complete", "no response from", variety. Also hard hangs, and on the occasional boot, mx1 would not even be seen! DOS diags failed when both cards were in the box, and passed when one card was installed. Just thought I'd toss that out there, in case the driver developer doesn't know about the cards yet. I'm sure CompUSA sold a ton of 'em at $20/ea. /// Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message