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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Dual ethernet cards in FreeBSD.
Date: 8 Dec 93 21:58:24 GMT
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seppo@news.lth.se (Seppo Axis) writes:

>Is there support for dual ethernet cards in FreeBSD. I gave it a first
>try but didnt succed. The machine got timeouts probing ed0 ( the other
>card was installed as ed1).

I've got a 10baseT NE2000 and a Thinnet WD8003 running on my machine,
and they work just fine. It's exchanging routing information and
routing quite happily.

You don't say which kernel and which cards you are using, so I can't
help you out with your specific problem. You may well have to
recompile the kernel to set up your cards properly. In the generic
boot kernel I used (GENERICAHA) devices ed0 and ed1 are set up at
different addresses but both use the same IRQ (9--also known as 2),
which won't work. If you're using that kernel you might try using ed0
*or* ed1 (irq9, ports 0x280 and 0x250 respectively) and ed2 (irq 10
and port 0x300) together.

cjs
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