Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:26:33 -0500 From: "J Ramos" <jramos2@nc.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions with configuring multiple NIC's Message-ID: <000801c5162a$6f191740$6501a8c0@europa> References: <002701c51488$fd369e10$6501a8c0@europa>
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Hello again, I've managed to get myself absolutely lost. I've got everything recompiled, no network interfaces on startup. I can ifconfig sis0, the onboard ethernet, it "works." Only problem is, I can't reach anything off the local network. What am I missing? I know it's something that init calls at startup that reads resolv.conf, etc..., but I have yet to figure out what. I've been Googling for a while and reading man pages; rc, rc.conf, resolv.conf, init, etc..., and I'm stumped. If anyone could offer anything it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Ramos" <jramos2@nc.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:38 PM Subject: Questions with configuring multiple NIC's > Hello, > > I'm currently running 5.3 on a HP Pavillion ze4420us laptop. Pretty much > everything that I would > like to get working works, with the exception of my NIC's. The onboard > National Semiconductor DP83815/16 works fine by itself with the sis > driver. I have 2 pcmcia wireless ethernet cards, that > "work." Linksys WPC11 v4 wireless B card is recognized via XP drivers and > ndis, as is the > Netgear WG511, also through XP drivers and ndis. I'm having a tough time > getting the wireless > cards configured correctly with ifconfig. I believe that the problem is > with the netmasks. Seems > like I read somewhere that 2 NIC's on the same machine connected to the > same network may > not share the same netmask. One should be 255.255.255.0 and the other > should be > 255.255.255.255. sis driver support is built in to the kernel, GENERIC > kernel from install, which > I will probably have to rebuild shortly. Not being able to kldunload the > si and if_sis modules > keeps sis0 constantly in ifconfig. If I unplug the cable and try to run > only a wireless card, it doesn't > seem to work correctly. ifconfig'ing ndis0 to a good ip and 255.255.255.0 > netmask says the > network is down when trying to ping the router. Using the 255.255.255.255 > netmask with ndis0, > pinging the router leads to "ping: sendto: Host is down." However, the > interesting thing is that > I get a message from arp, "io kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 is on sis0 but got > reply from > 00:09:5b:dd:c4:f8 ( the router mac address) on ndis0." Although sis0 is > not on the network, my > machine is acting like it since sis0 can be disabled, but the modules > can't be unloaded. Here's my > point... > > Would I be better off rebuilding a kernel with sis driver support not > built in, but instead loading > the modules and ifconfig'ing only the interface I need at that point in > time, and if I need to change, > just unload the modules I don't need, and load the ones I do, then > ifconfig the new active > interface? > > There may be a more elegant solution, and I'd be happy to hear them, or > any links or man pages > that I probably overlooked. > > Thanks much, > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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