Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:09:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Terribile <materribile@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 install issues with Neatgear FA310TX NIC Message-ID: <20030830180912.37159.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030830131047.301C316A4C1@hub.freebsd.org>
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Matt Bjornson <matt@techiesalumni.com> writes:
> I downloaded and burned the two ISO for 4.8. ....
> The NIC is not being recognized however, it is a
> Netgear FA310TX. ... The kernel is not recognizing
> and NIC driver... I tried to manually select each
> Network driver in UserConfig with no success when
> I select AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100, 3c507, NI5210
> I get a conflict with the PC-card controller
> this is not a laptop ... The light on my router/hub
> is green so the cable is good...
Ouch! This sounds like a problem I had with an
Abit/AMD
motherboard (or is `mainboard' the trendy term?).
Mine
was costly; when FreeBSD 4.6 attempted to initialize
one of the NICs, it apparently wiped the field-
upgradable BIOS, destroying the board. It wouldn't
even POST. I went through two of them (one at a
vendor's expense, save shipping). I finally switched
to a more expensive Gigabit/Intel board. I believe
the ABit board (a KD7 with GigE) had an Intel NIC,
so it appears that something else, perhaps peculiar
to the mobo or its maker, is being mistaken for a NIC.
You can find the report in the FreeBSD bugs archive
by searching for ``terribile'', all fields.
Mark Terribile
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