Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:57:28 -0700 From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: can't see onboard NIC Message-ID: <001801c5b496$68b40710$0a00a8c0@rodan>
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Hi, I've been trying to get FreeBSD-6BETA up and running (after having some troubles trying to get 5.4 running) on a new AMD64 system. The system is an ASUS vintage-ae1 with an onboard NIC (I'm not what kind other info I can provide since the web link for the mb specs is down on the asus website)... When I run dmesg, I get the following lines (I can't post the whole thing since I can't get files from the bsd box to my windows box -- no mcopy and I don't knwo how to mount the usb stick either): plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 and when I type ifonfig, I get: plip0: flags=<108851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=blah,blah,blah.... and that's it. So my questions are: 1) how do I get the nic up? kernel recompile? how and with what settings? It seems there are a gazillion ethernet interfaces already in the /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC file. Do I need to add the entry for in the /boot/device.hints file? Is there a way to do this without a kernel recompile using some settings in the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file? 2) how do I get the usb mounted (or even better automounted)? 3) I'm guessing that I need to make changes to the kernel in /usr/src/sys/amd64 and not /usr/src/sys/i386, Yes? Also, I've tried to simply insert a usb stick into the front port and when I removed the device, the machine rebooted. Is there any more information I can provide to help solve this? Thanks, Jeff. --- Jeff D. Hamann Forest Informatics, Inc. PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421 541-754-1428 jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com www.forestinformatics.com
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