followup on help needed on configuring rl0

[hb4j at free.fr]

hi everyone,

I have been able to manually setup my rl0 without Xserver and BEFORE this
stinking "rl0 : watchdog timeout" error message appeared at boot time and I
could surf with NO problem, so that means that Freesbie recognizes and
initializes my realtek 8139 nic (it is integrated on my medion laptop's
motherboard) very well.

In order to do this, I had to interrupt the boot process just before the place
where the error message comes.

Any idea as to how I could fix this ?

ps : it does the same problem whether I use the Freesbie livecd or my
installation of it on my hard drive.

thanks in advance for your help :o)

original message :

hi everyone,

I am a very enthusiastic FreeBSD newbie (I have wanted to use FreeBSD for years,
but thanks to the latest Freesbie 1.1 which is awesome, I have finally made the
step).

I have a good knowledge of linux administration, both system and network and am
presently learning the correspondances with FreeBSD line commands.

So, here is my problem for which I would need your help :

on my laptop (medion 1GHz mobile, with a realtech 8129/8139 network card), my
network card is detected and recognized as what it is but, whether I use
sysinstall and its network config wizard or dhclient or assign manually a
network address with netmask and so on (ifconfig inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and the route also manually, it never changes (whether
rebooted in between or not), but says my ip is 0.0.0.0 and dhclient complains
that it cannot find any dhcp server although, on another computer with the very
same network cable and networkplug on the wall, it has no problem whatsoever

furthermore, when i boot under linux, it works perfectly fine ...

thanks in advance for your help

hb4j