From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 2:21:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D2615140 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13479; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:21:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:21:48 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001081021.LAA13479@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lynksys EtherPCI NIC. X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <856vi4$5i2$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Brad wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Hello, > > Recently, a NIC on one of my servers failed, and I didn't have a > backup on hand (3Com 3C905), and while running to Fry's as a last > resort, I picked up > a LynkSys EtherPCI NIC. Shouldn't this NIC use the "de" driver? It was > working just fine using the "ed" driver, and the dmesg output is strange > and follows: > > ed1: rev 0x00 int a irq 15 on pci0.10.0 > ed1: address 00:20:78:16:6d:26, type NE2000 (16 bit) Uhm, what is strange about that? Looks like a standard NE2000 PCI clone. > Just wondering if this will be changed, or if the current settings > are correct (for future reference). Thanks. If the card is recognized by the ed driver and works correctly, there's nothing that has to be changed. Although, for a server, a cheap NE2k clone isn't quite the best thing, so you might want to change that. ;-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message