From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 30 19:18:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29655 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29497; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA12509; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:44:53 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807010214.LAA12509@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Goh cc: efinley@castlenet.com, Alfred Perlstein , "Timothy M. Hughes" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jul 1998 07:48:16 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:44:52 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So far so bad, now I have a $2.5k machine sitting pretty on its own and > cant even change the network card which is on the motherboard. > Looks like the only option left is to port the linux driver. > Anyone with some experience on this ? > Or is there a guide? Well, you could add a network card to it... A cheapo PCI card costs around AU$60, so you may as well buy one until you get the driver for the onboard one working... This of course assumes you have a spare PCI slot.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message