From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 14:42:52 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 9EA3216A4BF for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rakanishu.clay-jones.com (dpvc-68-161-243-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.243.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28A043FA3 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clay@clay-jones.com) Received: from clay-jones.com (supergig.clay-jones.com [192.168.33.11]) h7NMFTM6016471; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:15:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:42:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Clay Jones From: Clay Jones In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing 4.8 install problems 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: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:42:52 -0000 Turned out to be a bad cable! Wow, it was a pretty new one too...It's pretty weird that it causes the network card to not even be recognized. Thanks! On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Clay Jones wrote: > I discovered I had 1) A bad media burn to CD, and 2) An unsupported > network card. I burned disk 1 of the ISO again and purchased a new > network card from the hardware compatibility list (My realtek is > version 82xx not 81xx). > > So after re-installing, the DLink I purchased was recognized as a > RealTek 81xx as expected. I assigned an IP and did other network > configuration, and then rebooted. > > Everything seemed fine, but when I shut the box down, moved it to my > server room, and booted it back up, the network interface is now not > discovered on boot, and does not exist. I've rebooted several times > to no avail, the network interface may as well not exist. > > Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >