Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:09:55 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE doesn't recognize NIC Message-ID: <200404012209.55886.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <20040331201040.GC58169@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200403312054.28711.dgw@liwest.at> <20040331201040.GC58169@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 20:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:54:28PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.9 on a brand-new machine. The problem is that it > > doesn't recognize my network card, no matter what I do. > > The vendor ID is 10DE and the device ID is 0066 (the BIOS tells me these > > numbers). > > That's an nVidia nForce2 Ethernet controller. > > http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=10de > > Should be supported to some extent (if you have the onboard MCP MAC > enabled) via the binary-only Linux driver: see the net/nvnet port. > You'll probably have to borrow another NIC in order to get the system > installed and then build yourself a kernel and install the net/nvnet > port after that. I installed the port and followed the instructions in the README file. I chose the method using rc.conf and ifstart_nv0. The module loads well, but on boot it says: ifconfig: interface nv0 does not exist. When I configure it manually in sysinstall, it is still down, but the interface does exist after boot. Daniela
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