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#! rnews 1996 bsd Message-ID: <31FA8D63.38928091@intercom.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 17:42:59 -0400 From: dws <dws@intercom.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.62 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD has no support for ethernet cards Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: intercom.com Lines: 24 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!n5.gbso.net! We just got some Intel boxes at a great price for the office, and at the urging of a FreeBSD developer, we put FreeBSD on one of the machines. However, I have put 3 ethernet cards in and none of them have worked. I know this is a FreeBSD problem because I have seen discussions of how one of the cards was not supported in the freebsd mailing list, or at least, many people were not getting it to work. The cards I have are an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN Adapter PCI (no support) Trendnet 16-bit TE-16 Xpress (NE-2000 compatible) (no support) and a 3com Etherlink III 3C5098-TP rev. A The last card works for a time frame, but it seems to not like the idea of having too much data flowing out of the computer. If I ping flood a host, or open up a telnet/X-windows etc. session, soon it will just stop transmitting. If I take it down with ifconfig, and up again, it starts working again. I've never had such troubles with my Linux machines (or MS Windows). I'm probably going to format the FreeBSD and put Linux on top of it. dws -- 10 Megs/sec World Wide Web Hosting - Intercom Online http://www.intercom.com web hosting, dedicated servers, co-location, ISDN, T-1 Wall Street Web Farm - http://www.intercom.com/webfarm.htm Have your own dedicated server on our ethernet get hit at 10 Megs a second!