From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 8 10:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7B81576B for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA23903; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:21:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20000108192108.A23533@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:21:08 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: "Brian D. Moffet" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-nics in FreeBSD 3.3 Release References: <200001072146.NAA01836@apollo.backplane.com> <200001081752.JAA06103@moffetimages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <200001081752.JAA06103@moffetimages.com>; from Brian D. Moffet on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:52:19AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First of all, don't reply to other mails if you're not referring to them - it messes up the threads displayed by MUAs that support them. Second, this question would have been more appropriate for -questions. On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:52:19AM -0800, Brian D. Moffet wrote: > Of course some one knows this, but does FreeBSD support 2 NICS? Yes, it does. > 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. You didn't attach your configfile or even just quote the relevant lines from it, so it's hard to guess what you're doing wrong. Just to make sure - you do have both "xl" and "ep" in your configfile? What errormessages do you get when booting ("dmesg")? > And as soon as I find out more information, I plan on modifying pciconf > to be able to parse more of the PCI BIOS information instead of just > the vendor and card IDs, unless someone has already done so. Where should > I send the changes? File a send-pr (see "man send-pr" or check out the handbook). bye, Harold -- Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have been lost waiting for NT to reboot. Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message