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Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PCI Ethernet Card problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201633280.16885-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980719125314.379A-100000@bmkind.lnk.telstra.net >

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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote:

> 
> I have installed a PCI Ethernet card. I noticed that the GENERIC kernel
> config file only lists ISA Ethernet Card ADDRESSES & INTERUPTS.

PCI cards are automatically configured.

> My KERNEL seems to recognise the card at "ed2" at bootup, even though it
> is not in the KERNEL config file.

Normal; if ed0 is in there, then the PCI code comes along with it.

> The following problems seem to be occuring :
> 
> 1. The routing table "netstat -r" is not automatically adding the
> localhosts Ethernet hardware address as it does when I use an ISA card.
> 
> 	eg. destination    gateway                Nitif
> 	    hostname       00:40:05:34:bb:d4      lo0

Have you ifconfig'd the interface?

> 2. When I telnet to any other host on my network, the networking is very
> slow ( it seems to temporarily hang every few seconds ).

Nameserver lookup?  You'd have to run a tcpdump to figure out what it's
doing.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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