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From: Youth Internship Program <yip@cdngateaway.pe.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: problems with ethernet cards......(sound familiar?:)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:48:46 -0700
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Ok I have a machine here at an educational institution and would like to 
put Freebsd on it. Its a p75 and seems to match all the configurations 
required to set for freebsd. I am having one problem tho, I have 2 
ethernet cards, an Intel EthernetExpress pro 10 and a D-link 220. In the 
supported list, the intel card comes up as supported, however when i boot 
from the latest snap floppy, it can't find it. Is there an appropriate 
driver i need to have for it to recognize it? I tried using the stable 
boot floppy and the thing crashed as it was uncompressing the kernal. (I 
do have an installation/setup disk for the card, maybe it has to be 
preconfigured, I don't know). With the d-link card, it isn't supported in 
the list, however i set the card up for nec2000 emulation. When booting 
up from the stable floppy, it recognizes it as ed1, however when any 
network attempts are made, the card times out. There is a sound blaster 
card in the machine, could it be possibly conflicting? I have tried 
messing with the interupts but nothing seems to be working. Anyhow if 
someone has run into this problem before, or possible might know a 
solution, it would be greatly appreciated.

Youth Internship Program, Holland College