can't see onboard NIC

[Jeff D. Hamann]

Hi,

I've been trying to get FreeBSD-6BETA up and running (after having some 
troubles trying to get 5.4 running) on a new AMD64 system. The system is an 
ASUS vintage-ae1 with an onboard NIC (I'm not what kind other info I can 
provide since the web link for the mb specs is down on the asus website)...

When I run dmesg, I get the following lines (I can't post the whole thing 
since I can't get files from the bsd box to my windows box -- no mcopy and I 
don't knwo how to mount the usb stick either):

plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0

and when I type ifonfig, I get:

plip0: flags=<108851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
mtu 1500
lo0: flags=blah,blah,blah....

and that's it. So my questions are:

1) how do I get the nic up? kernel recompile? how and with what settings? It 
seems there are a gazillion ethernet interfaces already in the 
/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC file. Do I need to add the entry for in the 
/boot/device.hints file? Is there a way to do this without a kernel 
recompile using some settings in the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file?

2) how do I get the usb mounted (or even better automounted)?

3) I'm guessing that I need to make changes to the kernel in 
/usr/src/sys/amd64 and not /usr/src/sys/i386, Yes?

Also, I've tried to simply insert a usb stick into the front port and when I 
removed the device, the machine rebooted.

Is there any more information I can provide to help solve this?

Thanks,
Jeff.



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Jeff D. Hamann
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