From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 18 21:55:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9F137BB49 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlh@xtra.co.nz) Received: from p400 ([210.55.152.93]) by mta4-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000219055512.UGUJ6796593.mta4-rme@p400> for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:55:12 +1300 Message-ID: <004401bf7a9d$b5e12ab0$0a00a8c0@p400> From: "Dr David Hingston" To: References: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> <20000218111850.D6162@lava.net> Subject: Re: good network card Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:53:50 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message