Network Card

[Peter Elsner]

I would lean towards your motherboard if I were you.

I have used the Netgear FA-311 in numerous systems and
they all work fine.

Peter Elsner


At 02:44 PM 12/1/2003, you wrote:

>Sirs,
>
>I hope this is the place I can ask a question.
>
>I'm trying to setup FreeBSD on a machine.  It wouldn't even boot from CD 
>to install because of a network card error.  I bought another network card 
>(Netgear model FA311) and it seemed to work.  At least I was able to 
>install FreeBSD.  Upon further inspection, after installation and re-boot, 
>I noticed that this card was also getting and error.  The following three 
>lines are what I get:
>
>sis0: <NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX> at device 13.0 on pci0
>sis0: couldn't map ports/memory
>device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6
>
>I admit that I am VERY new to the Unix/Linux stuff.  I know the card 
>fails, but why?  It's new and from the above three lines I am unable to 
>find any kind of help to answer the question.
>
>Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated and I thank you in 
>advance for any you can give me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff Nordgren (Rookie)
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