Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:25:06 -0500 From: Patrick Whalen <patrickwhalen@mac.com> To: Joshua Lokken <jolok@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC Message-ID: <A4BD1648-BB7C-11D6-857D-003065D743AE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <11X4XTQEA2ZLG986JH08B5231URFE.3d6e6012@inspectorbox>
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On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: > 8/28/2002 6:39:48 AM, Patrick Whalen <patrickwhalen@mac.com> wrote: > > So, hopefully after all of this discussion, you've realized that you > need to get a > different NIC. I have never had to tell FreeBSD how to find a NIC, > except an > old ISA that very well could have been bad. Who knows why it won't > find it. > But, I guarantee, if you go out and buy a new, $7 NIC that uses a > common > (such as Realtek) chipset, it will work like a charm. Not to say that > you 'can't' > get that NIC to work, just be a little easy on yourself, and buy > another. HTH, > >>> This is your NIC --- it should be using the dc driver, and the PCI >>> vendor is apparently 'Accton'. > > -- > Joshua > > Hope that the day after you die is a nice day. > > > > I just went back through the emails which I received on this topic, and realized that I forgot to try one thing which was suggested by John Bleichert. I disabled PnP in BIOS, and that did it. Thanks everyone for your help. patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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