Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:15:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Smith <craze@eta.ee.fit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: IBM IntelliStation Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990217011009.9968A-100000@eta.ee.fit.edu>
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Hello All;
I was trying to install 3.1 on a IBM intellistation machine;(one
of those with 450mhz processor, and 512 ram, ide HD, etc) and I could not
get the network card to work.
The motherboard has a built-in network card in it, and it can be
disabled by the bios. At first I thought it was a 10/100 switching
problem, since both the card and the hub was set to autodetect media.
However, I figured out that no matter what network card I use, the kernel
detects it, and ifconfig -a shows the device in place, however whenever
you ifconfig [ep0|fpx0] my.ip.number the machine crashes. I tried
eepro100, and 3c509; (with more than few models of 3c509) and it all did
the same. I believe there is some sort of incompatibility issue with the
built in card, but even if it disabled, I get the same response with other
cards.
Did anyone installed FreeBSD on a similar machine before? Please
help, because I do not want to put back windoze on it.
-Can
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