From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 7: 3:35 2002 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 C04A837B401 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B682443E4A for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 501B24FC8A; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABF84A0D; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Ethan Gilchrist Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys LNE v5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ethan Gilchrist wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:08:53 -0400 > From: Ethan Gilchrist > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Linksys LNE v5 > > I've installed FreeBSD with no problems finally. I ran into a few issues and > had to reinstall more times than I care to admit to. My only problem now is > that for some reason my network card will not work when I try to detect the > IP address and such through DHCP. This is confusing to me because on one of > the first installs that I did it in fact did dectect the settings. I've > perused through the Kernel config and I'm not really sure what (if any > changes) need be made there since it seems as though the network card is > supported "out of the box" or so says any documentation I have found. I did > go to Linksys' website and try to find out from there what I could do and > (of course) they reffered me back to FreeBSD.org which I had already > searched! Heh. The only thing I can find in the way of error messages about > this is in [dmesg] right after the line referring to my network card it says > there's an error with ports/memory? I'm quite unsure of what or where I > should be looking to fix this. > > Please bear with me as I just subscribed to this list and while normally I > would at least lurk a bit before posting I've been working on this for about > a week and have hit (and gone over though not by much) my deadline for > getting this up and running. Aside from not being able to get online from > FreeBSD it works great and I'm happy with it. > > I'm also running it from the 2nd hard drive of my computer but so far that's > not been an issue (except for the fact that FreeBSD wants to boot up as > default which I don't want but that's a question for another day. Heh) > Sounds like you need to disable "PnP Support" in your BIOS. I noticed on one box that I didn't need to do this with 4.5, but did with 4.6. If this doesn't help pls send in the output of the 'dmesg' command. This error sounds like a PnP issue. HTH - JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message