two 3C905B's in 5.4

[John Brooks]

you may need to set the parameters of the card with a vendor specific
utility. depending upon your bios, you may also need to disable pnp (also
a vendor specific utility) and then manually set the irq and memory addr.

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John Brooks
john at day-light.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of dave
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: two 3C905B's in 5.4
>
>
> Hello,
>     I've got a 5.4 box that's going to be a router. It has two
> 3C905B cards
> in it and i'm having a blank fill it in as you wish, of a time getting the
> cards working. Neither card likes dhcp, sometimes i'll start dhclient and
> the cards will work, sometimes they won't. If i give the -v option to
> dhclient i get the message network is unreachable, see readme about
> broadcast address. I know this isn't a cable modem issue or a
> cable, because
> i plugged in an old 3c509 isa card and it worked the first time, this fix
> isn't practical for this setup. An ifconfig check shows both 905's in
> autonegociation mode 100-mbit tx, i'm wondering if i should manually set
> them to something, but am unsure as to what. One card one time gave me the
> waiting to transmit error message as mentioned in the man page
> and it took a
> reboot to fix it. I've checked the bios on this box and it's pnp os option
> is off. Any help appreciated. If more information is needed ask,
> i will send
> it.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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