From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 8 10:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D1E151EF for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA00255; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:14:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:14:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Brian D. Moffet" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-nics in FreeBSD 3.3 Release In-Reply-To: <200001081752.JAA06103@moffetimages.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Brian D. Moffet wrote: > Of course some one knows this, but does FreeBSD support 2 NICS? I have > a 3com 3c905 and a 3com 3c509 in my box, but no matter how I adjust > the configuration file, I cannot get the 509 to be recognized. I > could put the Ne2000 clone in there instead, but the 509 is a better > card. Actually it isn't. Your problem is probably due to the 509 being in PnP mode, which 3.3 doesn't cope well with. You're better off using an NE2000 IMHO. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message