From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 03:20:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA03664 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 03:20:06 -0800 Received: from django.inria.fr (django.inria.fr [138.96.24.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA03651 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 03:20:00 -0800 Received: by django.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA04988; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 12:19:27 +0100 Message-Id: <199503131119.MAA04988@django.inria.fr> To: Tom Stevelt <70312.2134@compuserve.com> cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need Help With 3COM 3C509 Ethernet Card In-reply-to: your message of 10 Mar 1995 23:48:47 EST. Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 12:19:27 +0100 From: Andres Vega Garcia Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : Tom Stevelt <70312.2134@compuserve.com> wrote: >Please Help me set up FreeBSD 4.0 to use 3COM 509 Ethernet Card > >I can not get my little FreeBSD system to talk (or even ping) >the other UNIX machines on our network (SCO unix running TCP/IP). >And they can not ping me. > >Do I need a entry in /dev for ep0? If so, what type (b/c) and >major and minor? > >System is a 386 with 8 meg RAM and 210 meg IDE drive. >20 meg DOS partition, rest for FreeBSD. >Ethernet Card is a 509 with a single TP jack (No BNC or AUI). >When booted under DOS and using James River ICETCP the 509 works >just fine. >While booting FreeBSD the 509 is recognized as ep0. However, the >message looks something like (aui/tp)(*UTP*). Does this mean >it sees my card okay, or that it is confused and can not recognize >a card with just a TP jack? For example, I have: ep2 at 0x320-0x32f irq 11 on isa ep2: aui/bnc/utp[*UTP*] address .... That means I have the three connectors in my card (aui/bnc/utp) but I have configured in the EEPROM the UTP connector. > >Any light you can shed would be much appreciated. Tom Stevelt > Remember you have to use the link2 option while ifconfig 'ing if you want to use the UTP or AUI connectors. Andres ------------------------------ INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France avega@pax.inria.fr