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From: chrish@cats.ucsc.edu (Chris Haidinyak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Networking compatibility question for FreeBSD 2.0.
Date: 9 May 1995 16:15:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Message-ID: <3oo4ea$8cb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
Hi,
I have a NETWORK CARD COMPATIBILITY QUESTION. I am having trouble getting
my LinkSys PCI Ethernet card to operate correctly. The system probes fine and
it looks as if the card is set-up correctly, i.e. it correctly set-up my BNC
connection instead of the RJ-45. The trouble is when I try to do a PING, it
goes through exactly 15 pings and then it loses connection with my other
computer. What is weird is that the little hardware activity LED is showing
up as if the pinging is still going on. The network operates normally when I
install and use 2 $39 NE2000 compatible cards.
Machine #1 - 486-100 with Mylex MGV PCI-VLB motherboard
20 MB RAM
S3 compatible VLB VGA with 2MB RAM
Promise 440 VLB IDE
2 400 MB IDE Drives
NCR 53c810 SCSI - PCI
LinkSys 32-bit DEC 21040 PCI Ethernet Card
FreeBSD 2.0 CD-ROM release
Machine #2 - 486-100 with Mylex MGV PCI-VLB motherboard
16 MB RAM
S3 compatible VLB VGA with 2MB RAM
Promise 4030-2 VLB IDE
1 850 MB IDE Drive
NCR 53c810 SCSI - PCI
$39.00 16-bit NE2000 compatible Ethernet Card
Novell network running over DOS 6.20
Any and all responses are eagerly awaited, PLEASE.
Thanks,
Chris Haidinyak