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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:04:35 +0200
From:      Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
To:        "Allen May" <umayxa3@donet.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Network problem
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020111140328.00a6f110@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <00ff01c19a95$b54b9a80$0401a8c0@Hewey>
References:  <F270Ee6QqQaoQi5a9c10001e298@hotmail.com>

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At 06:47 11/01/2002 -0500, Allen May wrote:
>I'm stumped.
>I just installed FreeBSD 4.4 on a Dell Optiplex machine. I know the NIC card
>is good in it, I just had Mandrake on it and before that Win2000 and had no
>network problem.
>
>I don't know FreeBSD well enough to troubleshoot the network connection.
>Can someone give me the steps needed to troubleshoot/fix my ethernet
>connection?

Hi,

It's probably an embedded 3com 905 compatible (dependent on the optiplex 
model), so you could try the xl NIC driver.

This worked for me on a GX110

Andy

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