From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 14:21:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6861065678 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:21:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985E18FC25 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:21:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 6031 invoked by uid 0); 4 Apr 2008 14:21:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (216.186.148.249) by smtp5.knology.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 2008 14:21:11 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id 4D02228425; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:21:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:21:11 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Steven Friedrich Message-ID: <20080404142111.GB40183@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <16482938.post@talk.nabble.com> <200804040801.20399.freebsd@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200804040801.20399.freebsd@insightbb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, berlowin Subject: Re: How to instal my NIC Card? 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: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:21:14 -0000 On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > First, you need to check that the card was detected during boot. > as root, do "dmesg | grep em0" As root? That is really necessary? In my experience dmesg only works a short time after boot. A day or so later the dmesg buffer gets cleared. The safest thing is to read /var/run/dmesg.boot, a file stashed away for exactly this sort of future reference. > This will show a few lines beginning with em0: if it was detected. > You didn't say what kernel config you are running. If you haven't > created a custom kernel, then you're running GENERIC, which supports > the Intel card you're trying to use. > > If it was NOT detected, then show us your kernel config. > If you don't know what that is, as any user, do "uname -a" and copy > the output here. As root, "kldload if_em" should load and initialize the driver if its not built into the kernel. If this works then rather than build a new kernel one can add if_em_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf > If it DID detect it during boot, then grep em0 /etc/rc.conf > Hope this helps /etc/rc.conf is where one puts the startup parameters for em0 but there is no point trying to configure em0 until em0 is listed by ifconfig. If sysinstall didn't see em0 then there wouldn't be anything for em0 in rc.conf. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.