Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:10:13 -0700 From: "Sattler, Rick" <rsattle@uswest.com> To: "'jmutter@ds.net'" <jmutter@ds.net>, "Sattler, Rick" <rsattle@uswest.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problem enabling new ethernet card Message-ID: <A4BEFCD202C9D211A33100805FA7F535014CA2DC@porex01.dex.uswest.com>
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> > 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
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