From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 11: 0:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailext03.compaq.com (mailext03.compaq.com [207.18.199.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05A6B158D4 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Geoffrey.Sloan@COMPAQ.com) Received: from mailext03.compaq.com by mailext03.compaq.com via smail with esmtp id for ; Wed, 7 Apr 99 12:58:17 -0500 (CDT) (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.10 built 27-oct-98) Received: from mail.compaq.com([not looked up]) (peer mailint02.compaq.com[207.18.199.35]) by mailext03.compaq.com with SMTP id rcv024855; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:58:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.compaq.com by mail.compaq.com via smail with esmtp id for ; Wed, 7 Apr 99 12:57:38 -0500 (CDT) (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.10 built 18-dec-97) Received: from exchou-gh01.im.hou.compaq.com([not looked up]) (peer exchou-gh01.im.hou.compaq.com[172.18.219.203]) by mail.compaq.com with ESMTP id rcv005002; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:57:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: by exchou-gh01.im.hou.compaq.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <2NN7T2RQ>; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:57:35 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Sloan, Geoffrey" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Upgrading from a 10BT Generic PCI to a NetGear FA310TX, running 3 .1 Release Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:57:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm looking at upgrading from a generic 10BaseT PCI NIC which is assigned the device name of "ed1" to a NetGear FA310TX NIC. I'm currently running FreeBSD 3.1 Stable, which in the release notes states that his has support for the FA310TX. Here come the questions... What would be involved in removing the old NIC and replacing it with the new? Would the NIC be automagically recognized by FreeBSD (using the generic kernel)? If so, what device name would the FA310TX be given? Once the NIC is recognized by the system, what would I have to do in order to have the system use the FA310TX as its new network interface? (The only idea I'd have would be editing /etc/rc.conf and changing the ifconfig statements' device references from "ed1" to whatever the new NIC's device name would be called...again, still need help here) Any help you guys can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Sloan Systems Engineer Small/Medium Business Appliances Compaq Computer Corporation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message