Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:48:25 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Ray Smith <rays@cms.uwa.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Message-ID: <41498B99.9070403@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040916091034.01bb8c78@130.95.234.2> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040916091034.01bb8c78@130.95.234.2>
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Ray Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for the cross posting. > Accepted. Obligatory disclaimer is that it's really not an "on topic" post for the "newbies" list; the charter for that list suggests rather strongly that technical issues be discussed on questions@... While I'm at it ;-), it's good etiquette to wrap your email's lines at about 72 characters because some guys are actually reading the lists with text mode displays and the like. So, hello, welcome to FreeBSD, glad to have you! Thanks for a well-worded question, and I've fixed your lines for you and removed the cross-post to newbies ....consider yourself chastised? :-) > I have just received a box with the an Intel SE7210TP1 motherboard, > and was wondering if anyone has been able to get FreeBSD running > on it? I could'nt find it in the supported list of hardware, but though > I would give it a go anyway. I have installed 5.2.1 but have run in to > problems with the networking. There are two built in network cards > an Intel PRO/100+ 82551QM, and an Intel PRO/1000 82547EI. Both > seem to be detected, and I can set up the network parameters, but > neither seem to work. I am able to ping internally, but nothing leaves > the box. > > This is my first attempt at installing FreeBSD, so hopefully there's > something I have missed, or is my hardware not yet supported? Any > suggestions? Well, first another disclaimer: I have no such box, but it seems likely that it's supported. If the "supported hardware" page on the website doesn't give information, the next step would likely be to read the manpage for the appropriate driver. Example: in this box I have one RealTek NIC, which uses the "rl" driver, so I can do "man 4 rl" at the prompt and read up on the driver --- about the first thing that is covered is which cards are supported by the driver. Try that first, if you haven't, for your cards. The next thing to check for is pilot error (sorry, but it happens to everybody at one time or another, I would wager). The sentence "I am able to ping internally but nothing leaves the box" seems a tad unusual, and as a result I'd sure like to see the output of "ifconfig" and "netstat -rn", for starters. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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