From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 8:53:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88C937B415 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA14782; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:03:17 +0200 Message-ID: <3BA76E0B.2080009@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:53:47 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010916 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Castaneda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pc boots freebsd no ethernet nics found References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Castaneda wrote: > hi, > > I asked a question before regarding 2 realtek pci nics (8139B & C) i > had on a cyrix 586, 16MB RAM, 1.2 GB HDD. The general response was > that maybe my rl chipset idīs werent recognized, I also got the > suggestion of turning off plug-n-play in the BIOS, so i did but still > no ethernet cards are displayed on configure-networking-interfaces > while installing. > > So i tried a new nic, a 3com 3c905TX but freebsd still doesnt > recognize this card. Nor did it recognize the realtek ones, (still). > > What could be wrong, i dont think im doing anything wrong > i also get a hold of a verbose boot log (with -v boot) but i dont know > how to view it (i know this would help).. after boot, have a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot. If possible, ask again, including dmesg.boot, as well as the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message