Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:51:18 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd nic kills first?? Message-ID: <20010613105118.D19893@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20010613130809.Y94324-100000@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM>; from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:21:37PM -0400 References: <20010613130809.Y94324-100000@panda.FreeBSDsystems.COM>
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>Hello, >After installing a 2nd NIC (Intel Pro/100 S) and booting up, the OS sees >the 2nd NIC but it also states that media NONE status NO CARRIER for the >first NIC (fxp0). Doing an ifconfig fxp0 down and then ifconfig fxp0 inet >xx.xx.xx.xx with the correct netmask up, does not help. > >dmsg shows both NIC's as the same in terms of driver 10/100/100+ >Anyone ever experienced such a situation and know why it's doing this? Guess: you're using a L440GX motherboard or similar that probes some of the PCI slots before the onboard PCI, resulting in fxp0 becoming fxp1 when you plug in a PCI Pro/100 (which becomes the new fxp0)? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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