From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 05:30:38 2005 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 CF62616A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 05:30:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr (postfix3-2.free.fr [213.228.0.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8434943D49 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 05:30:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hb4j@free.fr) Received: from imp6-q.free.fr (imp6-q.free.fr [212.27.42.6]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BFEC062 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:30:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by imp6-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id C159D16F19; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:30:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from lns-th2-4-idf-82-254-87-49.adsl.proxad.net (lns-th2-4-idf-82-254-87-49.adsl.proxad.net [82.254.87.49]) by imp6-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:30:37 +0100 Message-ID: <1110000637.422943fdb3e74@imp6-q.free.fr> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:30:37 +0100 From: hb4j@free.fr To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 82.254.87.49 Subject: followup on help needed on configuring rl0 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, 05 Mar 2005 05:30:38 -0000 hi everyone, I have been able to manually setup my rl0 without Xserver and BEFORE this stinking "rl0 : watchdog timeout" error message appeared at boot time and I could surf with NO problem, so that means that Freesbie recognizes and initializes my realtek 8139 nic (it is integrated on my medion laptop's motherboard) very well. In order to do this, I had to interrupt the boot process just before the place where the error message comes. Any idea as to how I could fix this ? ps : it does the same problem whether I use the Freesbie livecd or my installation of it on my hard drive. thanks in advance for your help :o) original message : hi everyone, I am a very enthusiastic FreeBSD newbie (I have wanted to use FreeBSD for years, but thanks to the latest Freesbie 1.1 which is awesome, I have finally made the step). I have a good knowledge of linux administration, both system and network and am presently learning the correspondances with FreeBSD line commands. So, here is my problem for which I would need your help : on my laptop (medion 1GHz mobile, with a realtech 8129/8139 network card), my network card is detected and recognized as what it is but, whether I use sysinstall and its network config wizard or dhclient or assign manually a network address with netmask and so on (ifconfig inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and the route also manually, it never changes (whether rebooted in between or not), but says my ip is 0.0.0.0 and dhclient complains that it cannot find any dhcp server although, on another computer with the very same network cable and networkplug on the wall, it has no problem whatsoever furthermore, when i boot under linux, it works perfectly fine ... thanks in advance for your help hb4j