From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 09:48:32 2005 Return-Path: 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 C9EF916A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:48:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr (postfix3-2.free.fr [213.228.0.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AA843D58 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:48:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hb4j@free.fr) Received: from imp2-q.free.fr (imp2-q.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D50C131 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:48:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by imp2-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id B316A629AF; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:48:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from 195.124.114.37 ([195.124.114.37]) by imp2-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:48:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1109929711.42282eef97fe8@imp2-q.free.fr> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:48:31 +0100 From: hb4j@free.fr To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 195.124.114.37 Subject: help needed on configuring rl0 on medion laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:48:32 -0000 hi everyone, I am a very enthusiastic FreeBSD newbie (I have wanted to use FreeBSD for years, but thanks to the latest Freesbie 1.1 which is awesome, I have finally made the step). I have a good knowledge of linux administration, both system and network and am presently learning the correspondances with FreeBSD line commands. So, here is my problem for which I would need your help : on my laptop (medion 1GHz mobile, with a realtech 8129/8139 network card), my network card is detected and recognized as what it is but, whether I use sysinstall and its network config wizard or dhclient or assign manually a network address with netmask and so on (ifconfig inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and the route also manually, it never changes (whether rebooted in between or not), but says my ip is 0.0.0.0 and dhclient complains that it cannot find any dhcp server although, on another computer with the very same network cable and networkplug on the wall, it has no problem whatsoever here is the error message I get : "rl0 watchdog timeout" furthermore, when i boot under linux, it works perfectly fine ... would there be a need to load another driver (modprobe under linux but i don't know the equivalent under FreeBSD) thanks in advance for your help hb4j