From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 10:13:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28852 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28842 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA08472; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:55:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701281755.KAA08472@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: installing network cards To: dara@salk.edu (Dara Ghahremani) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:55:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dara Ghahremani" at Jan 27, 97 08:33:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am having some trouble installing two 100BaseT-capable ethernet network > cards on two different freeBSD machines and am wondering if there's > someone who can help. [ ... ] > However, upon booting the cards are not recognized. I was given these > driver IDs by a colleague and do not see them listed in the FreeBSD > documentation. Does anyone have experience with using these cards? > I'd appreciate any comments that might lead to a solution. Run the command "ifconfig -a"; on my machine, I get: lp0: flags=810 mtu 1500 de0: flags=8863 mtu 1500 tun0: flags=10 mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 lo0: flags=8009 mtu 16384 lp0 is my parallel port, tun0 is the tunnel driver, sl0 is the SL/IP driver, and lo0 is the loopback. This leaves de0 unaccounted for, and that's my ethernet card. You need to see if you have an ethernet card that is seen by the system... and then use that name if you do. If you don't have a card seen by the system, then you need to run the command "dmesg | more" and read through the boot log to see if you can see an ethernet card being identified. If not, you may not have a driver in your kernel. I seem to remember the card you have is a fairly recent addition, so unless you are running a fairly recent FreeBSD, you may not have the driver at all. If you don't, then you should get the driver from -current: /sys/i386/isa/if_ex.c /sys/i386/isa/if_exreg.h /sys/i386/isa/if_ixreg.h If I remember correctly. Look in the code and contact the author for more detailed instructions, if necessary. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.