Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:29:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Sloan, Geoffrey" <Geoffrey.Sloan@COMPAQ.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading from a 10BT Generic PCI to a NetGear FA310TX, running 3 .1 Release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904071124550.4368-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <E13408D6CA7ED011824400805FEA11960304867E@exchou-prod1002.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Sloan, Geoffrey wrote: > 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. Which TX is it? Is it the one with the Digital chip or the Netgear chip (rev D1)? > 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? If it has the Digital chip, it'll be de0; if it's the Netgear/On-Lite chip, it'll be pn0. > 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? Edit /etc/rc.conf and replace ed1 with the appropriate name in both the 'network_interfaces' and the 'ifconfig_ed1' line (change it to 'ifconfig_if0' where if0 is the name). Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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