Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Ethan Gilchrist <ethan@randominformation.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys LNE v5 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208190959510.15908-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <HAEJIEDKNHIKKCEKJFMIMEBMCBAA.ethan@randominformation.com>
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ethan Gilchrist wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:08:53 -0400 > From: Ethan Gilchrist <ethan@randominformation.com> > 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
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