From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:25:12 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 A45E637B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED82143E72 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrickwhalen@mac.com) Received: from smtp-relay01.mac.com (smtp-relay01-en1 [10.13.10.224]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id g7TIP8Kw004444 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtp-relay01.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g7TIP8Vw008187 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrickwhalen.local ([216.17.84.130]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H1MB5V00.MDB; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:25:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:25:06 -0500 Subject: Re: NIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Joshua Lokken From: Patrick Whalen In-Reply-To: <11X4XTQEA2ZLG986JH08B5231URFE.3d6e6012@inspectorbox> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) 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 On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: > 8/28/2002 6:39:48 AM, Patrick Whalen 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