From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 12:24:43 2002 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 9203F37B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391C643E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB20E28CE2; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:24:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Patrick Whalen Cc: Joshua Lokken , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: NIC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020829152154.Q94409-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Patrick Whalen wrote: > On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > 8/28/2002 6:39:48 AM, Patrick Whalen wrote: > > > > So, hopefully after all of this discussion, you've realized that you need to get a > > different NIC. I have never had to tell FreeBSD how to find a NIC, except an > > old ISA that very well could have been bad. Who knows why it won't find it. > > But, I guarantee, if you go out and buy a new, $7 NIC that uses a common > > (such as Realtek) chipset, it will work like a charm. Not to say that you 'can't' > > get that NIC to work, just be a little easy on yourself, and buy > > another. HTH, > >>> This is your NIC --- it should be using the dc driver, and the PCI > >>> vendor is apparently 'Accton'. > > -- > > Joshua > > Hope that the day after you die is a nice day. > > I just went back through the emails which I received on this topic, and > realized that I forgot to try one thing which was suggested by John > Bleichert. I disabled PnP in BIOS, and that did it. > > Thanks everyone for your help. > patrick Ah the knee-jerk reaction to "go out and buy..." blub-bub-bah. :) Luckilly, 4.6 came out before I realized that 4.5 and my MS6167 motherboard was the cause of not ever being able to run X11 (startx). I nearly went out and bought an old "$7 videocard" in desperation, but am glad I didn't as I paid good money for my current ATI All in Wonder 128 16mb AGP (r128) video card!!! Glad to hear it worked out for you Patrick. Aren't you going to miss PnP in the future though? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message