Re: 4.8 install issues with Neatgear FA310TX NIC

From: Mark Terribile (materribile_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Matt Bjornson <matt@techiesalumni.com> writes:

    > I downloaded and burned the two ISO for 4.8. ....
    > The NIC is not being recognized however, it is a
    > Netgear FA310TX. ... The kernel is not recognizing
    > and NIC driver... I tried to manually select each
    > Network driver in UserConfig with no success when
    > I select AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100, 3c507, NI5210
    > I get a conflict with the PC-card controller
    > this is not a laptop ... The light on my router/hub
    > is green so the cable is good...

    Ouch! This sounds like a problem I had with an
    Abit/AMD
    motherboard (or is `mainboard' the trendy term?).
    Mine
    was costly; when FreeBSD 4.6 attempted to initialize
    one of the NICs, it apparently wiped the field-
    upgradable BIOS, destroying the board. It wouldn't
    even POST. I went through two of them (one at a
    vendor's expense, save shipping). I finally switched
    to a more expensive Gigabit/Intel board. I believe
    the ABit board (a KD7 with GigE) had an Intel NIC,
    so it appears that something else, perhaps peculiar
    to the mobo or its maker, is being mistaken for a NIC.

    You can find the report in the FreeBSD bugs archive
    by searching for ``terribile'', all fields.

                                      Mark Terribile

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