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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:53:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Xihong Yin <xyin@gmx.com>
To: Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: network problem on 8.2 stable
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I think the driver that comes with 8.2 stable just works fine.

When I manually  run dhclient em0, it says ip address obtained. but ifconfig em0 shows ip address of 0.0.0.0. And there is no default route in the 'netstat -r' output.


On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Edward Martinez wrote:

> On 11/17/11 18:41, Xihong Yin wrote:
>> 
>> I did reboot. It is the same thing.
>> 
>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Edward Martinez wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/17/11 17:56, Xihong Yin wrote:
>>>> The ip address can't be obtained.
>>> 
>>>
>>>   Have you tried rebooting  FreeBSD and letting it obtain the IP itself?
>>>   On some OSes that has actually worked.
>>> 
>> 
>>
>   Did you try configure the nic with sysinstall? I think FreeBSD 8.2 has a 
> updated em driver. You may need to download the newest FreeBSD em driver from 
> intel.
>
>    http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17509&keyword=%22em%22&DownloadType=Drivers&OSFullname=FreeBSD*&lang=eng
>