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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



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