Tim Gardner wrote:
> Mike,
>
>> I recently bought a machine with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard,
>> and FreeBSD 4.6 does not see the on-board LAN connection at
>> boot-up time. (Yes, it is enabled in the BIOS.)
>>
>> Must I buy a separate LAN card, or is there a way to get the
>> on board connection to work?
>
>
> I recently installed 4.6.2 on a p4b533-v. This has the Intel 82562ET
> PHY chip; I'm not sure about the P4S533, but perhaps it is the same. I
> installed bsd without the LAN, and then had to compile the kernel with
> fxp. That still wasn't enough: I needed a patch.
>
That doesn't apply here. From a spec file at ASUSTeK on the P4S533, it
is a
Pentium 4 [Socket 478] Motherboard based on SiS Chipset
This provides an SiS900 on-board LAN.
Kent
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