Re: 4.9-RELEASE doesn't recognize NIC

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 03/31/04

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To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>

    On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:54:28PM +0000, Daniela wrote:

    > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.9 on a brand-new machine. The problem is that it
    > doesn't recognize my network card, no matter what I do.
    > The vendor ID is 10DE and the device ID is 0066 (the BIOS tells me these
    > numbers).

    That's an nVidia nForce2 Ethernet controller.

        http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=10de

    Should be supported to some extent (if you have the onboard MCP MAC
    enabled) via the binary-only Linux driver: see the net/nvnet port.
    You'll probably have to borrow another NIC in order to get the system
    installed and then build yourself a kernel and install the net/nvnet
    port after that.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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