From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 18:27:18 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 18:27:16 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255C037B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBC2R3F78510; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:27:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:27:03 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Patrick Baer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configuring ne2000 to use 10BaseT In-Reply-To: <3A34DBBE.3B3D4EF4@nci.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Patrick Baer wrote: > I am just having a shhhhh^W nice time with installing a PicoBSD Router. > What I want to do is setup two NE2000 NICs to use 10BAseT instead of the > coax-connector. > > But: > > # ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0 media 10BaseT up > ifconfig: SIOCGIFMEDIA: Invalid argument > > Same with 10baseT, 10baseT/UTP, and so on > > So can somebody please point to any documentation about the media > directive and what to use? You say it yourself: > man ifconfig and man ed don't mention anything about the media directive > (except one flag for AUI use) Which means that "media" is an "Invalid Argument". NE2000 cards are either hard-wired or auto configure the media type. Try just: # ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0 up > > Thanks for your help! > > > Patrick > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message