From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 11:31:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EE914F38 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19044; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:29:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Sloan, Geoffrey" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Upgrading from a 10BT Generic PCI to a NetGear FA310TX, running 3 .1 Release In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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