From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 13:23:58 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 3228337B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819E743E4A for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 752364FC8F; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD554A0D; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:45:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Patrick Whalen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Patrick Whalen wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:25:06 -0500 > From: Patrick Whalen > To: Joshua Lokken > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: NIC > > > 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 > > Cool - glad to hear it. That one has bitten quite a few people (myself included) with 4.6 - I don't remember it ever coming up with 4.5. Cheers - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message