> 1- Check the hardware compatability list to make sure the > lan card is supported. > 2- Take a look and make sure the lan card is seated in it's > slot properly. I have had this happen a few times with > smaller cards not seating all the way (it's probably because > of my fat paws).
3. Temporarily boot from another operating system's "live CD", e.g. FreeBSD 6.2 disc 1 (select "fixit" mode to get a shell) For a Linux view try Ubuntu 6.06.1, or Fedora 7 for a more bleeding-edge kernel. These two require you to wait for a graphical environment to start though. These will show you if another OS recognises the card(s) you have. Also, under Linux, "lspci -v" gives useful info about the PCI cards you have installed. In theory, you should be able to do this with OpenBSD too: http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.shtml However it doesn't work for me: # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/pciutils-2.2.1.tgz pciutils-2.2.1: complete # lspci -v lspci: obsd_init: /dev/pci open failed ktrace and kdump just show: ... 4341 lspci CALL open(0x3c002b8b,0x2,0) 4341 lspci NAMI "/dev/pci" 4341 lspci RET open -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted ... Regards, Brian.
