From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 11:30:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7728837B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:30:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1832418C6; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080EA18C3; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:54:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:54:46 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Michael Aucoin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Different Device Names for Identical NICs In-Reply-To: <3AB37340.3B420914@mediaone.net> 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 > Thanks very much for all the input. I thought I would give you an > update. I was able to use both (3c509) NICs together after I rebuilt > the kernel with ep1 (thanks, Rick). However, I was initially blocked by > the NICs having the same IO address and IRQ. I reconfigured one of them > (using the 3COM-supplied DOS utility) and all is well now. I have been > brain dead about this whole thing, but I did not at first realize I > would have to reconfigure the NIC. Is this usual? Apparently not anymore... you can used just ep and it'll use both cards, at least that's what I gather. :) I haven't a way to test it for sure - whenever I have to put in dual cards I make them different brands so that I can differentiate between the two better when setting things up. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message