I just went through that on my pre Y2K PC using 4.9. Different PCI Nic card, but same symptoms. Had to enable verbose boot messages. Saw that every time I rebooted system the boot log showed an msg saying something about unrecognized ID. I know the card was good so I just kept moving the Nic card to different PCI slot, rebooting, until it finally worked.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jared Cheney Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trouble getting network card to work Hello, I've just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and am having trouble getting my network card to work. It is very odd, because it appears as though the kernel recognizes the card just fine and is using the pcn module to bring it up, etc. It is an AMD 79c79x card (according to FreeBSD). I can view/set properties via ifconfig - and it properly shows whether or not there is link. I cannot obtain a DHCP lease, nor can I ping any other hosts on my network when I have a static IP configured. To ensure that the NIC is fine and all cables, etc. - I booted from a bootable Linux CD (Knoppix), where I was able to use the card fine to ping, browse the Internet, etc. Linux showed it as an AMD 79c970 [PCNET32 LANCE] card. The card is called pcn0 in FreeBSD, and it says that it is sharing IRQ 10. Running tcpdump for any length of time also shows that 0 packets were received by the filter. Anyone have any ideas as to what could be the problem? Thanks, in advance, Jared _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
