From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 19:04:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA15243 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15237 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA32588; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:03:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:03:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: Administrator cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <343D861D.E6C72B77@cae.wisc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello > I am trying to install FreeBSD over an ether net but when I get to > the point where I choose the ftp media, I only get the option of > parallel port, PPP, or SLIP. Which one should I use? My net card should > be supported. > Mark Nejedlo > First off, what type of netcard do you have? FBSD supports a variety, but possibly not the one you have. If you know it is supported, you need to read the documentation and find out the name of the driver FBSD uses for it and make sure you configure it properly in the kernel. When you boot the configured kernel, watch to see if you get any error messages for it. Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************