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Add some points from experiences installing on a range of IBM Netfinity

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@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ ex0 dyn dyn dyn dyn Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 cards
le0 300 5 dyn d0000 Digital Equipment EtherWorks
2 and EtherWorks 3
lnc0 280 10 n/a dyn Lance/PCnet cards
(Isolan, Novell NE2100, NE32-VL)
(Isolan, Novell NE2100, NE32-VL,
some PCnet-PCI cards)
vx0 dyn dyn n/a dyn 3Com 3c59x ((Fast) Etherlink III)
xl0 dyn dyn n/a dyn 3Com 3c900, 3c905 and 3c905B
((Fast) Etherlink XL)

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@ -334,4 +334,33 @@ A: Configure DSA to use AHA-1540 emulation using EISA configuration utility.
irq 11 and port 340. Under emulation mode system will use DSA RAID disks,
but you cannot use DSA specific features such as watching RAID health.
[ Please add more hardware tips to this Q&A section! ]
Q: My Ethernet adapter is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST (or similar) but
it doesn't work. (Eg. onboard Ethernet on IBM Netfinity 5xxx or 7xxx)
A: The 'lnc' driver is currently faulty, and will often not work correctly
with the PCnet-FAST and PCnet-FAST+. You need to install a different
Ethernet adapter.
Q: I have an IBM EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the 'fxp' driver
correctly, but the lights on the card don't come on and it doesn't
connect to the network.
A: We don't understand why this happens. Neither do IBM (we asked them).
The card is a standard Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 with an IBM label
on it, and these cards normally work just fine. You may see these
symptoms only in some IBM Netfinity servers. The only solution is to
install a different Ethernet adapter.
Q: When I configure the network during installation on an IBM Netfinity
3500, the system freezes.
A: There is a problem with the onboard Ethernet in the Netfinity 3500
which we have not been able to identify at this time. It may be
related to the SMP features of the system being misconfigured. You
will have to install another Ethernet adapter, and avoid attempting
to configure the onboard adapter at any time.
[ Please send hardware tips for this Q&A section to jkh@freebsd.org ]