Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:02:37 -0500 (CDT) From: kf7nn@kf7nn.com To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Giap Vu <giqu@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Changing network card Message-ID: <XFMail.980512080707.kf7nn@kf7nn.com> In-Reply-To: <199805121109.MAA00176@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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dont do it. my network card is the intel ether express 16 and i cant install freebsd on that machine since the driver for that card dont work right on 2.2.6 although i believe it worked on 2.2.2 fine. i think greg sent out a warning earlier about it he said its suffering from "bitrot" On 12-May-98 Scott Mitchell wrote: >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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: kf7nn@kf7nn.com Date: 12-May-98 Time: 08:02:37 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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