Re: Two identical network cards in a laptop?

Hello Torfinn,

Eh? I thought pccardd didn't support multiple interfaces?
(See note in /etc/usbd.conf).

You might want to try with 2 different card types instead.

cheers
-Mike

Monday, November 11, 2002, 6:34:49 AM, you wrote:

TI> Hello,

TI> I have this laptop running FreeBSD-4.6.2-Release, and I'm trying to install two network 
TI> cards in it, so that I can use it as a firewall.
TI> But, no success so far. The Network cards are identical, it's the LNA-100B from 
TI> Billionton. Just to be on the safe side, I put both cards in another laptop, running Win2K, 
TI> and the cards work in there. So I probably only need to get the config right under 
TI> FreeBSD to make them work.
TI> The problem is that pccardd isn't able to configure the second card.
TI> In /etc/rc.conf I have these lines for pccardd:
TI> pccard_enable="YES"
TI> pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
TI> pccardd_flags=" -i 3 -i 15"

TI> (and the necessary _ifconfig lines)
TI> The default pccard.conf file didn't make the second card configured, so I have made my 
TI> own /etc/pccard.conf:
TI> # Billionton LNA-100B
TI> card "Billionton" "LNA-100B"
TI>         config  auto  "ed1" ?
TI>         config  auto  "ed2" ?
TI>         insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
TI>         remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop

TI> I tried various permutations of 'config 0x1 "ed1" ?' and 'config auto "ed2" ?' but it seems 
TI> like this card only has one config index, which is 0x7.
TI> The output from 'pccardc dumpcis' (only one card inserted) is attached to this mail.
TI> If I use config 0x7 "ed1" ? and config auto "ed2" ? I get the message:
TI>  pccardd[181]: driver allocation failed for Billionton(LNA-100B): Device not configured

TI> when I instert the second card.

TI> Any hints on how I can get this working?
TI> Oh, and in case anybody wants to know the laptop is a IBM ThinkPad 380ED.



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