From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 8:10:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C9037B69D for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1D1A63AB; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:10:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:10:30 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "Mr. Bad Example" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hiya Message-ID: <20010110171030.F94930@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jvdietsc@sidehack.sat.gweep.net on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:05:36AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:05:36AM -0500, Mr. Bad Example wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD for the the first time. It doesnt > look all that intimidating thus far. But please bear in mind I have never > installed a linux-like OS on any computer ever so I am still rather in the > dark when it comes to this. Anyhow, on to my question. I have a Dell GXa > at work that nobody is using and I am throwing FreeBDS on it. And I am > going to the network install. I have the floppies handy and ready to go > and all the hardware as far as I can tell is supported but... when I > get to the scree to configure hardware (from the 2 floppiy start-up) none > of the network drivers are the correct ones (and happen to conflict with > each other until I remove them all...) and the one I need (3Com 3C905B) is > not any where on the list. So my question is... do I need to add Isn't that a PnP or a PCI one? You can't disable them IIRC. I would suggest, just let it boot (don't change the config unless needed to because of hangs) and see if you see the card coming by in the device-overview (in bold letters) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message