From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 03:20:47 2004 Return-Path: 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 E920616A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:20:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFDC43D1D for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 03:20:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from blakem@world.std.com) Received: (qmail 9927 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2004 03:20:47 -0000 Received: from callmeike.net (HELO mail.callmeike.net) ([66.92.65.81]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Sep 2004 03:20:47 -0000 Received: from [192.168.89.130] (emma.callmeike.net [192.168.89.130]) by mail.callmeike.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD9E37E9B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <3C8DF01C-020F-11D9-B5DE-000D932E2CB0@world.std.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Blake Meike Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:20:44 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Trouble with NICs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:20:48 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to switch to FreeBSD, from years of Linux. I have a 5k with an Adaptec RAID card that has run Linux fine, in the past. I'm still having some trouble getting it to run FreeBSD. After having difficulty with a couple of 5.x kernels, and getting advice here to back off to 4.10, I've got most things working. I'm booting a custom kernel, but the problem is the same with GENERIC. ... ant the problem is that neither of the two E'net interfaces (one on the motherboard, one a separate card) comes up. I can get either, sometimes both, to come up if I fiddle around with ifconfig for a while, but I'm sorry to say that I don't have a reproducable sequence that always works: perhaps something to do with the "media" argument. I've tried fiddling with rc.config, trying to bring up one interface and not the other, include the media argument, and a couple things like that. Basically, I'm floundering. At some point, looking through the various documentation I noticed that several of my IRQs overlap. Looking at the kernel config file, though, I see that some devices specify an IRQ and some don't. Booting /kernel -c tells me that there are no network devices of any kind, enabled or disabled, so I can't experiment with re-assigning IRQs, to find out if this whole thing is a red herring. rc.config and dmesg enclosed, fwiw. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Blake Meike