Trouble getting network card to work

[fbsd_user]

Add this to your kernel source and recompile the kernel.

"device puc"

This uses an more detailed approach to probing older bio's
and motherboards PCI slots.
I found this as an solution posted in the questions archives.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jared
Cheney
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:33 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Trouble getting network card to work

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this and unfortunately, it did
not work
:(  Same behavior no matter what PCI slot I put it in.  I have
successfully
been able to get an old ISA NE2000 card configured and up in the
system, so
I'm at least able to talk on the network.  However, I'd really like
to get
the PCI card working, so I can get 100Mbps connections.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks
"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote in message
news:MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEPNFDAA.fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com...
> I just went through that on my pre Y2K PC using 4.9. Different PCI
> Nic card, but same symptoms. Had to enable verbose boot messages.
> Saw that every time I rebooted system the boot log showed an msg
> saying something about unrecognized ID. I know the card was good
so
> I just kept moving the Nic card to different PCI slot, rebooting,
> until it finally worked.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jared
> Cheney
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:28 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Trouble getting network card to work
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and am having trouble getting my
> network
> card to work.  It is very odd, because it appears as though the
> kernel
> recognizes the card just fine and is using the pcn module to bring
> it up,
> etc.
>
> It is an AMD 79c79x card (according to FreeBSD).  I can view/set
> properties
> via ifconfig - and it properly shows whether or not there is link.
> I cannot
> obtain a DHCP lease, nor can I ping any other hosts on my network
> when I
> have a static IP configured.
>
> To ensure that the NIC is fine and all cables, etc. - I booted
from
> a
> bootable Linux CD (Knoppix), where I was able to use the card fine
> to ping,
> browse the Internet, etc.  Linux showed it as an AMD 79c970
[PCNET32
> LANCE]
> card.
>
> The card is called pcn0 in FreeBSD, and it says that it is sharing
> IRQ 10.
> Running tcpdump for any length of time also shows that 0 packets
> were
> received by the filter.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what could be the problem?
>
> Thanks, in advance,
> Jared
>
>
>
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