Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Ng Wee Yong <ngweeyong@yahoo.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: device fxp cannot detect Intel On-Board LAN Message-ID: <20021029100539.Q30136-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <006301c27f02$4d68c850$1300000a@NgWYNB>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ng Wee Yong wrote: > Hi all, > > I just install the FreeBSD 4.6.2 - STABLE version. My motherboard is a MSI > 845GE Max-L, 1.8Ghz Pentium 4, On-board LAN is Intel 82562. > > FreeBSD just work fine accept it cannot detect my On-Board Intel LAN. I > build and install a custom KERNEL with "device fxp" & "device miibus" set. > The new kernel was "make" & "make install" successfully. But it just cannot > detect my network card. The "dmesg" doesn't even show any "fxp" output. > > Did I miss out any step? I read somewhere in the mailing list that you can > do some setting in the file "/boot/loader.conf" file, is it? You shouldn't have had to take those steps; I did a 4.7 install yesterday and the onboard NIC was automagically discovered and the fxp driver installed. I suspect that your particular NIC isn't supported by the fxp driver. What does the man fxp page have to say? KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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