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On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:36 pm, Kaveh Gh wrote:
>  Hi.
>
>  I had the same problem in debian but not in FreeBSD.
>  Anyway, the approach is general! First of all, take a
> look in CD of your network adapter which comes with
> your LAN adapter. These days, most brands, include the
> linux driver(module) in their proceeding CDs. Mostly
> they are in /Linux folder. 

All of your response is geared towards Linux. But this is a FreeBSD 
list. Different operating system. Different kernel. While most things 
in "userland" will be identical, the kernel and associated 
infrastructure are very different.

The net/nvnet port is a nForce2 MCP Ethernet driver. This builds a 
FreeBSD wrapper around part of NVidia's Linux driver. The tricky part 
will be getting this installed without the network.

David