Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:53:47 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> To: Oscar Castaneda <oscarcvt@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pc boots freebsd no ethernet nics found Message-ID: <3BA76E0B.2080009@i-clue.de> References: <F128u3fQtYdVzDpubxc00000d80@hotmail.com>
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Oscar Castaneda wrote: > hi, > > I asked a question before regarding 2 realtek pci nics (8139B & C) i > had on a cyrix 586, 16MB RAM, 1.2 GB HDD. The general response was > that maybe my rl chipset idīs werent recognized, I also got the > suggestion of turning off plug-n-play in the BIOS, so i did but still > no ethernet cards are displayed on configure-networking-interfaces > while installing. > > So i tried a new nic, a 3com 3c905TX but freebsd still doesnt > recognize this card. Nor did it recognize the realtek ones, (still). > > What could be wrong, i dont think im doing anything wrong > i also get a hold of a verbose boot log (with -v boot) but i dont know > how to view it (i know this would help).. after boot, have a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot. If possible, ask again, including dmesg.boot, as well as the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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