From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 10:36:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 10F9E37B411 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 10:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E3943FA3 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 10:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h42HYq14074347 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 12:34:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h42HYqHb074346 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 2 May 2003 12:34:52 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:34:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305021234.51977.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: NIC Card not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 17:36:17 -0000 On Friday 02 May 2003 12:08 pm, Richard J. Rodriguez wrote: > The NIC card cannot be mapped during boot. How do I either manually > map the card, or get it to work properly when I boot. The card I have > is listed as being compatible with FreeBSD 4.3 and later, and I even > went out to buy a brand new one, but no luck there either. > I’m new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. For starters, and considering you are new to this, "we need more information." But don't go posting the entire dmesg output. If you don't tell us what NIC you have, or what MB, then nobody can do much to help. Not everything "supported by FreeBSD" is compiled into the default kernel. At least not until the 5.0 series where everything is a loadable module selected at boot time. So for starters if you installed the sources go look for your NIC in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and also LINT in the same place. If its in LINT but not GENERIC then make a copy of GENERIC to, say, MYKERNEL, and copy the line(s) from LINT. Rename the ident tag, and build a new kernel. Details exhaustively covered in the online Handbook. Or: % su # cd /usr/src # make KERNCONF=MYKERNEL kernel # shutdown -r now -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.