From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 13:53:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE1E37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29AF43E6E for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01749; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:53:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA49762.8060307@owt.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:53:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Gardner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Jeays Subject: Re: ASUS P4S533 on-board LAN References: <3DA48F47.C3EAF871@statcan.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim Gardner wrote: > Mike, > >> I recently bought a machine with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard, >> and FreeBSD 4.6 does not see the on-board LAN connection at >> boot-up time. (Yes, it is enabled in the BIOS.) >> >> Must I buy a separate LAN card, or is there a way to get the >> on board connection to work? > > > I recently installed 4.6.2 on a p4b533-v. This has the Intel 82562ET > PHY chip; I'm not sure about the P4S533, but perhaps it is the same. I > installed bsd without the LAN, and then had to compile the kernel with > fxp. That still wasn't enough: I needed a patch. > That doesn't apply here. From a spec file at ASUSTeK on the P4S533, it is a Pentium 4 [Socket 478] Motherboard based on SiS Chipset This provides an SiS900 on-board LAN. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message