Trouble getting network card to work

[Jared Cheney]

Thanks - I will give this a try when I get a chance.  When I got back in to
work yesterday I found a couple of 10/100 cards from a different vendor
(Intel) and threw them in and they worked on the first boot.  Depending on
how much time we have before my team needs to begin using the box, I may not
be able to test with the old cards, but I'll tuck away this information for
future use.

Thanks for everyone's help!  BTW, we're going to be using the machine as a
router in our test lab and setting up ipfw rules in conjunction with
dummynet 'pipes' for WAN emulation.  As I've been playing around with this
I've been amazed at all that can be done with it -- hats off to the FreeBSD
community for building such an excellent tool.


"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote in message
news:MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEALFEAA.fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com...
> Add this to your kernel source and recompile the kernel.
>
> "device puc"
>
> This uses an more detailed approach to probing older bio's
> and motherboards PCI slots.
> I found this as an solution posted in the questions archives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jared
> Cheney
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:33 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Trouble getting network card to work
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this and unfortunately, it did
> not work
> :(  Same behavior no matter what PCI slot I put it in.  I have
> successfully
> been able to get an old ISA NE2000 card configured and up in the
> system, so
> I'm at least able to talk on the network.  However, I'd really like
> to get
> the PCI card working, so I can get 100Mbps connections.
>
> Anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
> "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote in message
> news:MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEPNFDAA.fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com...
> > I just went through that on my pre Y2K PC using 4.9. Different PCI
> > Nic card, but same symptoms. Had to enable verbose boot messages.
> > Saw that every time I rebooted system the boot log showed an msg
> > saying something about unrecognized ID. I know the card was good
> so
> > I just kept moving the Nic card to different PCI slot, rebooting,
> > until it finally worked.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jared
> > Cheney
> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:28 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Trouble getting network card to work
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and am having trouble getting my
> > network
> > card to work.  It is very odd, because it appears as though the
> > kernel
> > recognizes the card just fine and is using the pcn module to bring
> > it up,
> > etc.
> >
> > It is an AMD 79c79x card (according to FreeBSD).  I can view/set
> > properties
> > via ifconfig - and it properly shows whether or not there is link.
> > I cannot
> > obtain a DHCP lease, nor can I ping any other hosts on my network
> > when I
> > have a static IP configured.
> >
> > To ensure that the NIC is fine and all cables, etc. - I booted
> from
> > a
> > bootable Linux CD (Knoppix), where I was able to use the card fine
> > to ping,
> > browse the Internet, etc.  Linux showed it as an AMD 79c970
> [PCNET32
> > LANCE]
> > card.
> >
> > The card is called pcn0 in FreeBSD, and it says that it is sharing
> > IRQ 10.
> > Running tcpdump for any length of time also shows that 0 packets
> > were
> > received by the filter.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas as to what could be the problem?
> >
> > Thanks, in advance,
> > Jared
> >
> >
> >
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