From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 27 10:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nell.recompile.com (nell.recompile.com [165.254.60.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C173237B7C7 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 10:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from griffin@nell.recompile.com) Received: from localhost (griffin@localhost) by nell.recompile.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05205 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 13:13:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from griffin@nell.recompile.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 13:13:47 -0400 (EDT) From: david griffin To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0 Install Issue Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi- i've been running FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my toshiba portege for awhile now. it was very easy to install. i just booted from the standard floppy and did an FTP install. it had no problem finding my 3Com Megahertz 10bT PCMCIA NIC, even though i wasn't using the PAO boot floppy. when i recently went to install FreeBSD 4.0 on the same machine, with identical hardware, i tried to do it the same way - normal boot disk, FTP install. but the installer didn't see my network card. it's really annoying that something that worked perfectly in 2.2.8 would not work in 4.0. dave *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david s griffin director of tech blue dingo/gb griffin@bluedingo.com 212.358.8080 use the source *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message