From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 9:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8740F37B40D for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA29175; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:51:16 +0200 Message-ID: <3BAA1C45.7000505@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:41:41 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010916 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Castaneda Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pc boots freebsd no ethernet nics found References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Oscar Castaneda wrote: > i cant have a look at /var/run/dmesg since i havent installed FreeBSD > yet, or can I? > > my previous question (below) refers to a fresh fbsd installation which > doesn't recognize either realtek, HP, or 3com cards... seems a little > strange to me? [Now I know why top replying is a no-no...] > > > I get a verbose bootlog (boot -v) but how can i get a look at it? I > tried using an emergency shell but commands are very limited. Any > pointers? During boot, just before the configuration screen (/stand/sysinstall) appears, hit the button. After that, you can scroll back up to inspect the boot messages.You NIC should apprear there. If not, try only one of them during install. [Original question snipped. Top reply, too bad.] HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message