Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:57:35 -0500 From: "Sloan, Geoffrey" <Geoffrey.Sloan@COMPAQ.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Upgrading from a 10BT Generic PCI to a NetGear FA310TX, running 3 .1 Release Message-ID: <E13408D6CA7ED011824400805FEA11960304867E@exchou-prod1002.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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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
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