Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:39:13 -0500 From: Patrick Whalen <patrickwhalen@mac.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC Message-ID: <FF4B4256-BB86-11D6-857D-003065D743AE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020829152154.Q94409-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 02:24 PM, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Patrick Whalen wrote: >> 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 > > Ah the knee-jerk reaction to "go out and buy..." blub-bub-bah. :) > > Luckilly, 4.6 came out before I realized that 4.5 and my MS6167 > motherboard > was the cause of not ever being able to run X11 (startx). I nearly > went > out and bought an old "$7 videocard" in desperation, but am glad I > didn't > as I paid good money for my current ATI All in Wonder 128 16mb AGP > (r128) > video card!!! > > Glad to hear it worked out for you Patrick. Aren't you going to miss > PnP > in the future though? > OK, I'm going to show you just how inept I really am by asking: Is PnP supported in FreeBSD? I thought it wasn't, but I didn't see any smilies or winkies next to that last question. : ) And while I've got your ear, what do you think of Webmin? Does it do a good job? I'm starting to play around with it right now. patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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