RE: two 3C905B's in 5.4
The 3c905 driver is not very good. These cards are fine under Windows but seldom work properly under FreeBSD. Most of the motherboards I've tried them in don't work right with them. We do both Windows and BSD so you know where I put these cards when I get them. I'll be happy to swap a pair of Netgear cards with you, send me your address and I'll mail them to you. If they work out OK you can mail me your cards, otherwise just keep them. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dave Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: two 3C905B's in 5.4
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. -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dave Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
