From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 08:35:09 2004 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 263FB16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (rtfm.spawar.navy.mil [198.253.71.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06D143D39 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:35:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2OGXPOO007118 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Message-ID: <4061B855.2090001@slaughters.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:33:25 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: install: kernel config: NIC ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:35:09 -0000 I'm trying to do a methodical install (for once). 4.9 from a mini CD. 1st thing, when we get to kernel config menu, visual mode, no network devices show up active. In the inactive drivers section i see a little list of only six. question 1: this is hardly a comprehensive list, is it? there's no explanation in the handbook why it is so short. needless to say, my NIC is not included (as i suppose are many others not included) in hardware notes, i see my device, a 3c905B, requires xl(4) driver. the closest of the six i can choose from is a line that says: NE1000, NE2000,3C503,WE/SMC80xx Ethernet adapters 3C503 requires ed(4) driver question 2: what do i do now? tks. lee