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From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD has no support for ethernet cards
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:11:40 -0700
Organization: University of California, Davis
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To: dws <dws@intercom.com>
dws wrote:
>
> 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
Have you double checked your IRQs and iomems for the cards with the
defaults. FreeBSD will detect the card, but you will not be able
to use it if there are conflicts (or if the values are different
from what the machine expects). If you change the IRQ and/or iomem
on your card, you will have to use the -c option at the boot time
to change the defaults (initally). I have a $25 Addatron NE2000
compatable card that has worked great and never given me any problems.
--
- Mike
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