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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:01:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
To:        "E. Alan Wilson" <alan.wilson@ualberta.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FEC from www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/fec/xxx/fec/tar/gz
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108241354110.28185-100000@cody.jharris.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B86A0A9.CAA51AC3@ualberta.ca>

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, E. Alan Wilson wrote:

> Hello
>  I have been directed to this code by several sources to enable my
> Intel dual port server card.  I got it. Now what?
> 

	The best I can tell is:

	Install the netgraph module.

	# kldload ng_fec.ko
	# ngctl mkpeer fec dummy fec
	# ngctl msg fec0: add_iface '"dc0"'
	# ngctl msg fec0: add_iface '"dc1"'
	# ngctl msg fec0: set_mode_inet

	Where dc0 and dc1 are the 2 network cards you are using [change if
	needed].

	Then you should have an interface called fec0.  You can now use
	it like a regular interface to assign an IP or whatever.

	Corrections anyone?

> Does anyone know how frustrating it is for the newly arrived to run
> into this *complete* lack of even the most BASIC instructions?

	Take a number and get in line...write a man page for it and submit
	it once you figure it out.  Keep in mind this IS a volunteer
	project.


[snip]
> 
> But every time I change OS's (there is always something about new
> hardware that won't work on what you're already familiar with) I am
> faced with a new set of 'old boy speak'.  Stuff that's taken for
> granted.  Documentation that is supplied is only for the easiest stuff
> and then it is too detailed.  It is the difficult things that need
> addressing and they are never written down.
> 

	Then write them down.

Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
 - Keep on Routing in a Free World...
  "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!"


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