Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:06:34 -0400 From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> To: 'Mark Lipham ' <marklipham@hotmail.com>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: NIC Dilemna Message-ID: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A8DF@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM>
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Mark, I am using two FA-310's in my firewall, it is working like a champ. I would definitely NOT scrap this card in favor of a 3COM card. IMHO, 3COM cards are over-rated. Anyway, check your BIOS to make sure that you don't have something like 'PNP OS' selected. You want the BIOS to allocate resources for your OS (in this case). That has helped me on more than one occasion. HTH, Michael -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lipham To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: 10/24/2001 10:42 PM Subject: NIC Dilemna I am having some serious difficulty getting my Netgear fa310 NIC to work or any pnic chip card for that matter. I have freeBSD 4.2 powerpack and have installed it. the system has a problem recognizing the card's ports and memory range. the driver needed for my card i am told is the "dc" driver i have run "dmesg | less" after booting and sure enough I saw my card listed as dc0 however there are some error messages : "dc0: couldn't map ports / memory device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6" therefore when I ran ifconfig no nic was listed. I have also tried entering userconfig right before the kernel starts, boot -c, to manually try and set paramaters but I see no appropiate drivers under the Network tab. so I pulled out the card and looked for jumpers or swithces but there are none so it looks like i need to configure my kernel to match the card. However, I am not sure how to do this any suggestions? Should I just scrap this card and get a more high end NIC such as a 3Com 905? thanks for your help mark _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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