Hey,
I use an T43-Thinkpad Notebook, a PCMCIA card from Belkin called "F5D5010". In internet it says this card works onfreebsd FreeBSD but I got some problems with this card and the onboard card.
The first thing, if I installfreebsd FreeBSD I can choose both cards and one they do work if I configured one of those and set to standard. The other card doesn't work, I chose the onboard to standard, it works with some compatibility issues. I come to those issues after the first issue and that's the non-working second card. Ifconfig says it is active and the cable plugged in, it displays the setting I made into rc.conf and it also accepts other settings, from ifconfig it all looks working well but if I switch to X and start Firefox to go into internet nothing happens. I plug the cable into the right set onboard card and I can browse the internet, I plug the cable into the second card with same settings and no issues in ifconfig (looks like the onboard card) it doesn't go into internet. It displays can't connect to internet in pure console or if I start X it doesn't let me browse or do anything else in internet.
The next problem is some kind of instability when changing the IP settings with ifconfig on the onboard card to other IPs, if I set on console the settings to another IP it works one time and then I must reboot to change the IP back to how it was for functioning. If I set up the IP in rc.conf everything works fine for the onboard card but if I change the IP by command it doesn't accept this very often and refuses every connection to everything, also if I change back the first IP. For example I got 2 routers on different IPs and I can't switch with ifconfig command to the IP of the second router because if I do i can't access the router. I can access the router if I set the IP in rc.conf and reboot but if I change the IP with commands it doesn't let me in to both routers.
What's the problem withfreebsd FreeBSD? Is there some secret option to set how freebsd FreeBSD accesses the internet? Maybe it does automatically detect those setting while booting but I can't find anything about in free-bsd FreeBSD tutorials or web search. Looks like freebsd[/de] FreeBSD can't manage two networks without pointing one network out as internet network or so, similar with changing IP.
I also looked into the boot logs for the second card, there is no indicator of malfunctioning. It recognises everything fine but seems just doesn't want to use the second card for internet.
I use an T43-Thinkpad Notebook, a PCMCIA card from Belkin called "F5D5010". In internet it says this card works on
The first thing, if I install
The next problem is some kind of instability when changing the IP settings with ifconfig on the onboard card to other IPs, if I set on console the settings to another IP it works one time and then I must reboot to change the IP back to how it was for functioning. If I set up the IP in rc.conf everything works fine for the onboard card but if I change the IP by command it doesn't accept this very often and refuses every connection to everything, also if I change back the first IP. For example I got 2 routers on different IPs and I can't switch with ifconfig command to the IP of the second router because if I do i can't access the router. I can access the router if I set the IP in rc.conf and reboot but if I change the IP with commands it doesn't let me in to both routers.
What's the problem with
I also looked into the boot logs for the second card, there is no indicator of malfunctioning. It recognises everything fine but seems just doesn't want to use the second card for internet.