On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:29:35PM +0100, Patrick Ale wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 about 30 minutes ago and during the > installation I encountered a problem. > > My network card is detected but on DHCP Server discoverage I see that > no link is detected and that the driver/dhcp discovery process is > giving up on trying. >
I assume you're using age(4). age(4) is one of driver that still does full re-initialization while dhclient(8) is running, how about unplugging the UTP cable and replug it while DHCP is in progress? > I understoodthat the Attansic L1 Gigabit card's support is sort of > problematic due to the 'openness' of the documentation but I'd really > like to know how I can help or what I can do to get this driver > working on my Acer Aspire 8920 laptop. Buying another NIC for this > particular thing is not really an option. > There are several variants of L1 so please show me the dmesg output. > Any suggestion is welcome, my C programming skills are not really to > write home about so I am afraid I can't contribute much on that point > but if you need test dummies or feel like I can help out or if you > need more information, please let me know. > > > Thank you for your time in advance, > > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
