From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 20:46:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA00162 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA00156 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00484; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonathan Fosburgh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExress 16 card. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > I know from looking back through the archive that there has been a lot of > past discussion of this card, but none of it seems to answer my problem. > I recently installed FreeBSD on a 486DX-2 66. When the machine is booting > the card seems to be registering the network ... the top light on the back > of the card is on ands the bottom light flashes. When the boot cycle > probes it, it finds the card alright, correct port (300) memory address > (d000) and irq (10). It does this with both the ie0 and ie1 drivers when > I have them at those settings. However, after the card is probed, the > bottom light ceases to flash and the network is always unreachable. Does > anyone have any idea what might be causing this? You do have ifconfig lines defined for these interfaces in /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc.conf, right? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo