Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:56:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: mik.thwaite@dial.pipex.com (Mik Thwaite) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing two NICs Message-ID: <199909300056.UAA01587@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <001901bf0af1$c3a304a0$4a741cac@SUNDERLAND> from Mik Thwaite at "Sep 29, 1999 08:13:23 pm"
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[Try to keep your lines less than 80 characters long, please.] Mik Thwaite wrote, [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I have an two old 486 based machines, two ethernet cards and am trying to build a router/gateway. > > Both the NICs are 3Com 3C509 Etherlink III cards. > > One, the newer one works fine with FreeBSD, recognised etc and happily runs away with no help. > > The other - 3Com Etherlink III 3C509 Assy 8362-11 Rev B does not work at all with FBSD but is OK with Win95. > > Is the older card simply not supported? It uses a transciever LANart Model ETT1101 Dip 123 are up 4 is down (default setting) would this be a problem? Do you know what those jumper settings mean? Have you added an ed1 entry to your kernel config and rebuilt the kernel? > If I can't use the older card can I install a second NIC the same as the newer one and have FBSD recognise the second card imediately as ed1? If not am I better off going for a second NIC from a different manufacturer and using a different driver? I do believe that you need to compile in ed1 in the kernel before it will work. I don't know what to recommend if you need to resort to a different device. Someone else suggested an fxp0 device. However, that's a PCI card. Do these 486 have PCI slots available? The ISA equivalent of the fxp0 is the ex0 device. I have some machines with those, and I have no problems to report. But I did have some trouble trying to use an older one... what was it called, a EtherExpress LAN 16 or something. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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