From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 7:20:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872A437B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AC743E4A for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:20:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SEKhAn096452 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:20:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7SEKhpR096449; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:20:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice on finding correct drivers for NICs References: <001001c24e3d$45d34340$32040101@hume> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Aug 2002 10:20:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <001001c24e3d$45d34340$32040101@hume> Message-ID: <44u1lfrrno.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Charles Pelletier" writes: > Just thought I'd post this message. > Many times I have browsed the list only to find that many of you installing > FreeBSD for the first time have problems locating the correct device driver > for your particular NIC. I suggest that, instead of asking here first, > please do a google or otherwise search for your NIC and/or the chip used on > the NIC AND freebsd. That solves your problem 99% of the time, believe me. > I've had to do that with several different installs. I think only ask here > as a last resort. Another easy approach is to boot the install floppies (without necessarily doing an install) and see if the kernel recognizes the device. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message