Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:54:28 -0800 From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: argh with freebsd's networking! Message-ID: <001501c6020d$d404e9c0$0c00a8c0@mothra>
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I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the fact that getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied (and most costly) I can't afford to spend another minute trying to get my new laptop up and running with FreeBSD. I've recently purchased a laptop (sager 3880 -- very nice so far) and have had no success getting either the rj-45 network interface ot the wireless interface (Intel 2915abg) to work. When I run the install, it does detect a ethernet-firewire device (fwe0) and I have no idea how to use that. Regardless, I've found a couple of references to the to the network drivers found at http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/iwi-freebsd.html the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I don't have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages. I can't find instructions clear enough to be able to at least get one of the network devices running Are not sure which set of instructions are the appropriate ones. I've got an old PC card wireless network card (netgear ma401 -- 16-bit) and tried to hook that up to my network which has wep security and had difficulty getting that to work. I'm experienced enough to be able to recompile the kernel so if that's the hang up that's no problem but I simply need a way to get either support or the package onto the machine. Unfortunately the machine doesn't have a floppy drive and the USB support seems to be shaky at best so I've created a dual boot machine with the fat32 file system to it least get files into FreeBSD. I've wasted at least a day and a half on this and I can't spend anymore time on this and I'm getting really bummed since I won't be able to run FreeBSD on the new machine. If anyone has any meaningful assistance in getting the wireless or the wired ethernet working please assist. I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 i386. I downloaded the ISO images last week. I would love to recompile the kernel so that neither works. Thanks, Jeff.
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