From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 19:33:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD1016A416 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bobmc@bobmc.net) Received: from smtp-out.fcibroadband.com (smtp-out.fcibroadband.com [64.119.104.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2306A13C44C for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bobmc@bobmc.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-in1.fcibroadband.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB021B23F3 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:33:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp-out1 ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-out1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with SMTP id 03651-02 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:32:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host6614614327.dsl.res.tor.fcibroadband.com [66.146.143.39]) by smtp-out.fcibroadband.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800E31B230B for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:32:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45AD280F.1070000@bobmc.net> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:31:27 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <000001c73974$3f35d2b0$2401a8c0@SuperMercadosConchitaInc.local> <6.0.0.22.2.20070116131505.024a7268@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070116131505.024a7268@mail.computinginnovations.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Ethernet not recognized X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:33:02 -0000 Derek Ragona wrote: > Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then > look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply > not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many > of the ethernet drivers. > > -Derek > > > At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Juan Marrero wrote: >> Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new >> computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the >> integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link >> on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I >> missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I >> like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be >> such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like >> that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to >> connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not >> recognized. Can someone help me with this??? > dmesg should reveal something like the following for VIA chip sets. Note that there is a bus interface which might be supported by a driver separate from the VIA support. vr0: port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: on vr0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:e6:41:ba