From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 22:37:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57FA37B921 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 22:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10208; Thu, 4 May 2000 22:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005050533.WAA10208@implode.root.com> To: Wang Kai Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kstewart@3-cities.com, wankai1@comp.nus.edu.sg Subject: Re: email from a user In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 13:34:00 +0800." <39125D48.1A8A9493@comp.nus.edu.sg> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:33:46 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >My computer is installed with Freebsd 2.2.8. But I can't installed >correctly "Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter" in my >computer.It seems that the Freebsd can't support it. Although it could >run with identifier "fxp0", the OS can't get the true phsical MAC >address of the adapter.So when two computers with the same Intel adapter >in the same LAN,they can't communicate because they use the same MAC >adress instead of their phsical MAC address respectively. >Who can handle it? The problem has been fixed in new versions of FreeBSD. Can you upgrade? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - 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