From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 20:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15089 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA25204; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:39:22 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA04688; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:39:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981007123903.Q27781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:39:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Daniel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HELP]Installation References: <361C1267.5F3AA90B@leland.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <361C1267.5F3AA90B@leland.stanford.edu>; from Daniel on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 06:16:23PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 18:16:23 -0700, Daniel wrote: > > Thanks for your reply to my former question about installation. I > encountered another problem while trying to install FreeBSD > today. When it came to the stage of choosing one installation media, > I picked "ftp". However, there was no "Ethernet" option on the > menu. (There're serials, parallel, etc.) I have D-Link DFE-530TX PCI > Fast Ethernet Adapter installed. Is that because my network card is > not supported? It's because your network board hasn't been recognized. Is it in the list of supported hardware? If so, you may have inappropriate settings, though that doesn't usually happen with PCI boards. > If so, I'd not be able to have internet access even if I try to get > a CD copy and have FreeBSD installed? That depends on how you want to access the Net. You can still use low-speed serial communications. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message