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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!not-for-mail From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ethernet cards in freebsd Date: 19 Sep 1995 15:13:42 +0200 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 16 Message-ID: <43mfm6$40@Germany.EU.net> References: <43md7u$3d@skipper.netrail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <43md7u$3d@skipper.netrail.net>, nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) writes: |> Hi, I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD, and I will tell you one thing. |> Linux was much better and figuring out my hardware. I have two WD/SMC |> 8013 ethernet cards in the box and FreeBSD thinks they are at memory |> address they are not set to. In Linux I could tell the kernel where my |> ethernet cards were. Can I do this in FreeBSD? Has anyone had problems |> with the WD/SMC 8013 ethernet cards? I have only one 8013, and the stock kernel doesn't find it. On the boot prompt where you are asked what file to boot (defaulting to /kernel) tell it to boot "-c" and configure your ed0 and ed1 cards to whatever you want. This, BTW, is in the documentation supplied with the 2.0.5 CDROMs on CD#1 Bernard