From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 12:39:22 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 6943A37B405 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F6E43E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrickwhalen@mac.com) Received: from smtp-relay03.mac.com (smtp-relay03-en1 [10.13.10.222]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id g7TJdFvs022811 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay03.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g7TJdFKN009167 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrickwhalen.local ([216.17.84.130]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H1MELE00.897; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:39:14 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:39:13 -0500 Subject: Re: NIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Peter Leftwich From: Patrick Whalen In-Reply-To: <20020829152154.Q94409-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) 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 Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 02:24 PM, Peter Leftwich wrote: > 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? > OK, I'm going to show you just how inept I really am by asking: Is PnP supported in FreeBSD? I thought it wasn't, but I didn't see any smilies or winkies next to that last question. : ) And while I've got your ear, what do you think of Webmin? Does it do a good job? I'm starting to play around with it right now. patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message