Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:31:27 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac <bobmc@bobmc.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet not recognized Message-ID: <45AD280F.1070000@bobmc.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070116131505.024a7268@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <000001c73974$3f35d2b0$2401a8c0@SuperMercadosConchitaInc.local> <6.0.0.22.2.20070116131505.024a7268@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote: > Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then > look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply > not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many > of the ethernet drivers. > > -Derek > > > At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Juan Marrero wrote: >> Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new >> computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the >> integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link >> on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I >> missing here? I'm new at unix or linux, I've only used windows and I >> like to learn something outside windows, but I didn't know it would be >> such a headache. The motherboard is a PC CHIPS P23G or something like >> that. I also tried to compile the X11 but it display an error trying to >> connect to freebsd.org, obviously because of the Ethernet card not >> recognized. Can someone help me with this??? > dmesg should reveal something like the following for VIA chip sets. Note that there is a bus interface which might be supported by a driver separate from the VIA support. vr0: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:e6:41:ba
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