4.9-RELEASE doesn't recognize NIC

[Matthew Seaman]

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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