From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 13:10:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uswgne6.uswc.uswest.com (uswgne6.uswest.com [204.26.87.74]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC873F5C for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:10:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com (egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com [151.117.64.200]) by uswgne6.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00658 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:14:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from dexmail.uswmedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09868 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:10:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from worldsecure.dex.uswest.com (worldsecure.dex.uswest.com [155.70.2.88]) by dexmail.uswmedia.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16671 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:10:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from 155.70.2.83 by worldsecure.dex.uswest.com with ESMTP ( WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v4.3); Tue, 01 Feb 00 14:10:13 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: aadd1a76-264d-11d1-91c7-080009d97107 Received: by DENIMS01.mrg.uswest.com with Internet Mail Service ( 5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:10:14 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Sattler, Rick" To: "'jmutter@ds.net'" , "Sattler, Rick" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Problem enabling new ethernet card Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:10:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) X-WSS-ID: 1489943F459323-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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. The onboard card and the new card are both enabled in the BIOS. I've verified that they are not sharing an IRQ or I/O address. No, haven't tried it with two PCI cards, unfortunately this is a production system and isn't available for a lot of testing. However I am feeling it is about time to take it out of service for a while to do some of this. If I can disable the onboard card, yet cannot make the PCI card function, I'm leery of this tactic working. I can disable the onboard card via the BIOS and/or the configuration file for the kernel. I have gone so far as to change IRQ's for both, the onboard card continues to function regardless of the IRQ setting, yet I can't bring the new PCI card to life (it does work in another PC, so it isn't the card anyway). Thanks, Rick Sattler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message