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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:39:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Daniel <danielwu@leland.Stanford.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [HELP]Installation
Message-ID:  <19981007123903.Q27781@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <361C1267.5F3AA90B@leland.stanford.edu>; from Daniel on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 06:16:23PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810061403310.19930-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <361C1267.5F3AA90B@leland.stanford.edu>

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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
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