Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:53:50 +1300 From: "Dr David Hingston" <dlh@xtra.co.nz> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: good network card Message-ID: <004401bf7a9d$b5e12ab0$0a00a8c0@p400> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002172334270.21663-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002172257350.10263-100000@purkinje.salk.ed u> <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> <20000218111850.D6162@lava.net>
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Dear People
I have stable 3.3 installed. It has a CNET 110 NIC. It keeps "losing
itself" - ie gets lost somehow. If I reboot without powering off I find the
card is not found. (ax0) However if I shutdown AND power off this fixes
the problem for awhile. TiIl it recurs. The machine, pentium 100, 32M
RAM, 2940 SCSI etc is used as an apache server and firewall. The net side
is a de0 and seems to run without hitch, so the server continues to run, I
just lose internet net access to/thru the box...
The CNET driver readme for FreeBSD says:
BEGIN PRO110(C) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
FreeBSD UNIX Driver Installation Guide
======================================
Installation Procedures
=======================
Before you start with the installation process, make sure that the FreeBSD
UNIX
system is properly installed.
You must have installed the de "Digital Equipment
DC21040/21041/21140/21140A/21142
chipset PCI 10/100M driver".
1. Plug the adapter into your PC.
2. Power on your PC and going to FreeBSD UNIX operating system.
3. Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive 'A'.
4. At the FreeBSD UNIX system prompt, change working directory to 'A'
location.
# mcd a:\freebsd
5. Copy files into FreeBSD UNIX system.
# mcopy a:reg.h /usr/src/sys/pci/dc21040reg.h
# mcopy if_devar.h /usr/src/sys/pci/if_devar.h
# mcopy if_de.c /usr/src/sys/pci/if_de.c
6. When the system prompts a message if you want to overwrite the files,
please type "Y".
7. To recompile the system KERNEL.
# cd /usr/src/sys/compile/SERVER
# make depend all install
8. Reboot your FreeBSD UNIX system.
# reboot
END
however the CNET card was detected as the ax0 and not the de version .....
The other NIC is a 10 M version which runs as de0.
Can anyone offer any advice here? Should I dump the NIC? Can it be more
properly installed?
Any guidance would be appreciated!
With thanks
David Hingston
PS I have a CNET 120 also, but see it has no FereBSD drivers supplied with
it. Can any one advise if this runs under FreeBSD well enough?
(Perfectly!)
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