Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 12:09:05 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: "Giap Vu" <giqu@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing network card Message-ID: <199805121109.MAA00176@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <101718653@toto.iv>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Giap Vu said: >Hi, > I want to replace the current network card with an Intel Etherexpress >16, but I don't know how. Please help me. By the way I want to use coax >cable with the Intel card do I have to tell FreeBSD that during setup or >it will autotomatically detect the transceiver type? > Most (all?) of the FreeBSD ethernet drivers won't autodetect the transceiver type. You'll need to set this up with the DOS-based setup program for the card, as well as configuring the IRQ, I/O port, etc to something appropriate for your machine. On the FreeBSD side, you need to make sure that the driver for the card is configured into your kernel. For the EE16 this is the 'ie' driver (I think -- someone please correct me if I'm wrong there). If you're running the GENERIC kernel that was installed when you first installed FreeBSD, then you already have this driver. If you've built your own kernel since then, make sure you have a line like device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr somewhere in your kernel config file, then build a new kernel. You can set the card parameters in the config file or just use the '-c' option at boot time. All being well, the card will be detected (look for 'ie0' in the output of the 'dmesg' command to confirm this) and just work. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199805121109.MAA00176>