Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:17:53 +0000 From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@shawn.megadeth.org> To: "Marco A. Barbosa S." <mabs@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install 2 PCI NICs that are the same? Message-ID: <20001022191753.A2194@shawn.megadeth.org> In-Reply-To: <200010212259.PAA08160@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx>; from mabs@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx on Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:59:29PM -0700 References: <200010212259.PAA08160@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx>
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Marco A. Barbosa S. wrote: > > hello... > > I ran into a problem with a machine (pentium pro 200) that > had two NICs (one isa and one pci) but when I changed those to > a newer Pentium II machine, the isa card stopped working... > so I wondered if I could install 2 PCI cards in the same > machine easily... I did some checking out and I never saw > anything on the freebsd site... do I have to do something > special to the kernel? because there is only one entry for > that kind of NIC (fxp0 in my case)... I figured that maybe > I would have to add another entry, but I did not know if > there had to be something done to /dev to make it work > because just adding fxp1 to the kernel sounded to simple... > > anyway... I remember someone else telling me that he had tried > to do something like that somewhere else and it did not work... so... > > any help is appreciated. You only need one entry in your kernel config file for PCI cards. So an "options fxp" is all you need for 2 PCI Intel cards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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