Problems with dual ethernet card

Tim Goodaire tgoodaire at linux.ca
Tue Sep 13 12:51:35 PDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:09:54PM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> hi Tim,
> 
> Is it listed here?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET

No. It doesn't appear to be on that list. The card is an Intel Pro/100 S
dual port adapter, and worked well with the eepro100 driver under Linux. 

So, am I out of luck using this card with FreeBSD? 

Tim


> 
> - Marcelo Souza
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tim Goodaire wrote:
> 
> |Recently, I've begun making the switch from Debian Linux to FreeBSD.
> |I've been trying to set up my old Linux gateway box with FreeBSD 5.4, but
> |I'm having a strange problem with my dual-port ethernet card.
> |
> |It was working fine in Linux, but in FreeBSD dc0 is fine, but dc1 shows
> |up in ifconfig with the status "No carrier". I've tried switching out
> |ethernet cables to see if it makes any difference, but no luck.
> |
> |Unfortunately, I don't know where to begin looking for solutions to this
> |problem. I'm thinking that there may be some sort of conflict or maybe
> |my card isn't supported.
> |
> |Any ideas? I can provide more details if needed. I just don't know what
> |else to tell you about my problem.
> |
> |Thanks,
> |Tim
> |
> 
> 
> - Marcelo
> 
> 
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