FreeBSD 5.3 and ed0

[Gerard Samuel]

Gerard Samuel wrote:

> Gerard Samuel wrote:
>
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:29:27PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Im trying to move from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3.
>>>> When I used to install 3.x/4.x on this box, I would configure
>>>> the network card during the install process.
>>>> According to the manual, the device config part of the install,
>>>> was taken out, but the network card doesnt get identified by 
>>>> FreeBSD 5.3.
>>>> I tried selecting #6 during the install boot menu,
>>>> and entered ->
>>>> boot -c
>>>> in the hopes to get the device config screen, but I didn't get that.
>>>> Is it possible to get that pre FBSD 5.x device config screen,
>>>> or is there some way to configure that network card during the 
>>>> install process??
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe you can set a hint variable from the loader prompt.  The
>>> defaults are:
>>>
>>> hint.ed.0.at="isa"
>>> hint.ed.0.disabled="1"
>>
While reading the manual at 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/device-hints.html
it says ->
disabled: if set to 1 the device is disabled.
So that maybe my problem.
I'll give it a shot tomorrow, and report back...