How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

[Johan Hendriks]

>Hello there,

>At my work, I have a Dell PowerEdge2950 running FreeBSD 7.0, Webserver. This
>server has onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T with 2 ports.
>But we have faced watchdog timeouts and after googling and getting help on
>this great forum, we were able to figure out that this is Broadcom
>incompatibilty.
>So, we have bought Intel Pro 1000PT Single Port Gigabit PCIe Cu now. Which >I
>am going to install in the server but before;
>I need some information, where I seek you guys help???

>1. How to tell FreeBSD to which NIC to use?
>2. Where else I should make changes under /etc folder?

>I will aprecaite your help!
>-- 
>Thanks!

>BR / vj

In the file /etc/rc.conf edit the line that looks like this now
ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.22  netmask 255.255.255.0"

Change bge0 (could be a different name in your config) to the driver name of the intel card, proberly em0 look at dmesg for the real name.

Regards,
Johan Hendriks


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