Re: Newbie nic driver question

From: Keve Nagy (no_spam_at_poliod.hu)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:13:41 +0100

Paul Babiak wrote:
> I'm trying to install 4.10. When I get to the driver configuration page,
> my nic is not shown in the list, but according to the supported hardware
> page, it is supported:
>
> Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC Fast Ethernet NICs ( dc(4) driver)
> Kingston KNE110TX
> LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX
> Matrox FastNIC 10/100
> NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1
>
> How do I proceed from here?
>
> Thanks, Paul.

Hi paul,
I think you are talking about the visula-mode kernel configurator, right
in the very beginning of the installation.
Don't worry about that!
Those Nics there are old, mostly ISA, non Plug-N-Play cards, that is why
you explicitly need to tell FreeBSD if they are present on your system.

The NIC you have is a modern PCI card, so it can be- and will be
autodetected when the system starts up, you don't have to do anything
special for that! Just leave that visual kernel configurator, let the
system boot up to a certain point when it does not print out white
letters on black background any more, rather it stops at a more friendly
looking blue-white colour menu structure.
By that point FreeBSD should have already detected your NIC, so if you
want to double-check that, press [Scroll Lock] on your keyboard and then
use [cursor up] or [Page Up] to scroll back and see the list of devices
that were detected on your system. Look for the word "Ethernet", or most
likely your line will start with something like "dc0".
When you found it and are satisfied, you can press your [Scroll Lock]
again to return to the white-blue menu and conntinue installation.

Later, when you have your system installed, you can boot up, log in, and
issue the command "dmesg" to display these boot-time hardware detection
messages.

I hope this helped!
Have fun!

Keve 

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