From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 12:15:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11851 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11772 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA12388; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:14:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Snowden cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem setting up ethernet interface In-Reply-To: <0003938C.@dtt.co.za> 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 Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Michael Snowden wrote: > I have just recently join the unix community. Welcome aboard! > I have installed > FreeBSD 2.2.2 on my laptop successfully, but i am having difficulty > get the ethernet interface working. I have a 3Com 3C589C PCMCIA > Etherlink III card. I have tried numerous irq and port settings for > the zp0 driver (3Com 3C589 PCMCIA Etherlink III Ethernet controller) > > Does anyone have any suggestions or possible settings that I can try ? Use the card's config program (on the floppy or you can download it from 3com) to set the port & IRQ, then feed that to FreeBSD. As long as the card is in the machine AND ze0 is disabled it should work. If ze0 is enabled, it really mucks up the works. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message