Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:52:37 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple fxp NICs Message-ID: <199905180152.SAA19643@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 May 1999 19:08:30 EDT." <199905172308.TAA00479@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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>Doug White wrote, >> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: >> >> > I just added a new Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 (chip 82258) to my work >> > PC. I have a 82257 based EtherExpress that has been working just fine, >> > but it does not do 100BaseT. The old card was, and still is, >> > reconginzed and utilized just fine, >> >> The 82257 doesn't do 100Mbit? Um, no. I have one on the motherboard of >> my PPro200 and it *certainly* does 100Mbit. > >I do not believe all 82556 cards are 100BaseT capable. My attempts to >get my old card up to 100Mb/s (in both FreeBSD and Winbloze) have not >been fruitful, > ># ifconfig fxp0 >fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.0.0.204 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > ether 00:a0:c9:22:93:d0 > media: manual > supported media: manual > >>From the manpage for fxp(4), > > "Note that 100baseTX media type is only available on the Pro/100B." The old Pro/100 which uses the 82556 chip is not supported and won't be recognized in FreeBSD. The above ifconfig output is what I would expect from a PCI Pro/10 or Pro/10+. I suspect that that is what you really have and not a Pro/100B. >I'm not a PC hardware-type. I was not aware that there were master and >slave PCI slots. How do I tell a master from a slave? The physical >ordering in the box is SCSI, VGA, new fxp, and old fxp; then the ISA >slots start... all empty. > >The reason I am using this card is that it's what was bought for an >upgrade to 100BaseT at work. We've got dozens of these cards. I'd like >to figure out how to install it so I can use them in other computers >too. How do I know which PCI cards need master or slave spots? Most motherboards are bus mastering for all PCI slots. Only a few early 486/586 ones had a mix of bus master/non-bus master. If that is the problem, then swap your Pro/100+ with your VGA card; VGA cards are not bus masters. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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