Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:48:46 -0400 From: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Network card help needed Message-ID: <l03020910b523d29af5d3@[153.9.17.27]>
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>Unable to get ed0 working. Kernel compiles and reboots, I see a quick >>message flash by saying ed0 no such device. (BTW, you can use dmesg to get a longer look at that message.) This is a sort of answer with an embedded question: When that happened to me it was because I hadn't given it the right IRQ and port numbers for the particular ed0 card that I had. I had to edit /boot/kernel.conf to give it the numbers. There was a very recent post here asking how to find those numbers: Subject: How to get irq and drq information? The answer I saw assumed that FreeBSD knows the correct numbers. If that is not the case, I still don't know the complete answer, but it seems to me that I have in the past been able to get Windows 95/98 to divulge that information. (I'm not sure that that meant that Windows had found out without being told.) I have also on a couple of occasions gone to the manufacturers website and downloaded the configuration programs for the Ethernet boards in question. Those programs will not only tell you the parameters of the board, but will let you change them. That turned out to be necessary when we needed to put more than one Ethernet card into a single computer. (It was very handy to have an extra old machine lying around with DOS on it. We just moved the boards over to that machine and ran the manufacturers' configuration programs there.) If there's a a way to get FreeBSD to tell you the unknown parameters of an Ethernet card that's plugged in but for which the software is not yet correctly configured, I'd love to know about it, and it sounds like maybe you would too. ------------------------------------------------------------- Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be "profectionist". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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