From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 13: 0:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4AD3F3B for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:00:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p92.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.92]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18036; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:00:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38974955.B3B58BD0@ds.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 16:00:05 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sattler, Rick" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Problem enabling new ethernet card References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Here are the particulars: > Running FreeBSD v3.1 (will upgrade AFTER I get this all working properly). > The PC is a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with an embedded ThunderLan PCI ethernet > chip. Plenty of RAM, plenty of disk. Everything working fine. Added a 3Com > 10/100 PCI ethernet card on the PCI bus, slot 3. As far as I can tell, this > device equates to "device xl0" in the configuration file for my PC. In any > case, I do not have any ethernet device commented out in the configuration > file... I have also added the following to the /etc/rc.conf file for the > card: > Is it possible that the system BIOS disabled the onboard card when you inserted the additional PCI card? Have you tried it with 2 PCI cards, I suspect that will work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message