From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 3:48:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nexicom.net (mail.nexicom.net [216.168.96.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EB437B422 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marsdesign@mailandnews.com) Received: from Michael (d150-151-3.home.cgocable.net [24.150.151.3]) by mail.nexicom.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4BAmHD24443 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 06:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002701c0da08$54085680$03979618@mshome.net> From: "Mike Richards" To: "freebsd questions" Subject: Getting my nic's to work..probably something very stupid. Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:51:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got 2 d-link 538-TX nics in my machine, when i boot freebsd, they come up as 'unknown pci devices' something along that line anyhow. i thought maybe the realtek 8139 chipset drivers were'nt installed when i installed freebsd for the first time. so i checked through my kernel configuration; and they were. maybe i'm missing something.. and i most likely am. so i'm going to ask this simple question. what is the process for installing a new device/card into a freebsd based system? also, these cards come with linux drivers as well.. is there any way to maybe use them with freebsd? anyhow, stupid questions asked, waiting for stupid answers ;] -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message