From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 4: 4:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfmail.f-secure.com (dfmail.f-secure.com [194.252.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE75337B405 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16591 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jan 2002 12:04:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fsav4im2) (10.128.128.74) by dfmail.f-secure.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 12:04:09 -0000 Received: from [10.128.128.81]:45783 (HELO dfintra.f-secure.com) by fsav4im2 ([10.128.128.74]:25) (F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Mail 6.0.34 Release) with SMTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:07:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 8406 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 12:04:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO FSOPTI247.athame.co.uk) (10.128.129.80) by dfintra.f-secure.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 12:04:08 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020111140328.00a6f110@localhost> X-Sender: tap@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:04:35 +0200 To: "Allen May" , From: Andy Fawcett Subject: Re: Network problem In-Reply-To: <00ff01c19a95$b54b9a80$0401a8c0@Hewey> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Andy Fawcett | "In an open world without walls and fences, andy@athame.co.uk | we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." --anon http://athame.ath.cx/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message