From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 19:19:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E0F16A400 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58111.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58111.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56F6813C44B for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 98680 invoked by uid 60001); 2 May 2007 19:19:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=PUT/Ebza6aP1z9s6BMWacd7XVaaVMJAROcAmBgwtTaX4e7ycanpM1qxbk5L+hLftvNcz/cRyDS8GMGJF1P3/55uMcZYGcALbakL1ApWdB72Z0rMEXOf90/vfvG0Bkarvuac+TSPYh7Xc79IsfqXg7f4VRjx+/F6axqgW5UooUmw=; X-YMail-OSG: _CFAG74VM1ntUN7ZEggj0ckXWPmLa4_88ULeq0Kf5fwXbErrxYgi5LvgdRqiRRsvyg-- Received: from [131.191.24.2] by web58111.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 May 2007 12:19:04 PDT Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:19:04 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: Dan Sikorsky , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4638E1D2.7030803@cupid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <611006.97571.qm@web58111.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Dell x300 bge0 ethernet freebsd 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:05 -0000 Have to checked the settings for the network card? If there is an option to allow it to turn itself off when no activity, try turning it off. --- Dan Sikorsky wrote: > Hey all > > Im trying to get freebsd to work on my dell latitude > x300 > > ethernet device comes up as bge0 > i read the man page on bge it says to load the > module at boot time > But still same problem, it seems whenever i try to > do dhcp, the card > turns off or somthing (the lights go off) > and i cant get it to work. > > No i need to ndis or somthing? > > thanks > -- > > Dan Sikorsky > *Systems Admin/GoldMine Admin* > RegionalHelpWanted.com,Inc. & Cupid.com, Inc. > 845-471-5200 x220 > One Civic Center Plaza, > Suite 506 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > /http://RegionalHelpWanted.com > http://Cupid.com > http://PurplePages.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com