From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 5:59:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C41E37B409 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 05:59:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f7NCxMa58206; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 06:59:22 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Rey Lim" , Subject: RE: NIC problems and internet connection Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:57:16 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <004f01c12b90$71d739e0$a31a5018@vc.shawcable.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 below >-----Original Message----- >From: Rey Lim >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:00 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: NIC problems and internet connection > I've asked a few individuals and they said to try to look for an >eth0 or rl0 during bootup (dmesg). I didn't see eth0 but i did see rl0 > > rl0 = at devide 13.0 on pci0 > rl0 = couldn't map port > >and then when i took a look at pci0 > > pci0 = (vendor = 0x1102, dev 0x0002) at 15.0 > >i've also looked through different sites like Freebsd diary and >freebsd cheatsheet for solutions to this problem, but i'm convinced >freebsd isn't detecting my NIC, this is so because they all tell me to >edit my DHCP settings, and to edit DHCP settings, you need to know >what the NIC's device name is. rl0 Selecting a good NIC for FreeBSD... we thought we had done fine with a set of good 3COM's and ended up replacing them with Intel Pro100's... chances are @home provided you with a $2 NIC... check the compatibility chart there. Dave ps, try to post in plain text format To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message