Fail to install the driver of the on-board LAN Card

Darren Pilgrim darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org
Mon Aug 21 05:18:30 UTC 2006


Johnie Wong wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am the user of FreeBSD 6.1. Recently, i buy a new server for my 
> company which is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz) with Intel 
> D946GZIS mainboard, 2GB Consair DDR2 Ram,  3Ware 9500S-4LP, and 4X 
> Seagate 250GB SATA II Harddrive. But when i install the on-board LAN 
> card driver by activating the default fxp option, it is invisible.

That board is really new, so I would guess you have a new network
controller with a PCI ID FreeBSD doesn't know about yet.  It's a pretty
common occurrence, especially with Intel NICs.  Post the complete output 
of `pciconf -lv` (preferrably as an attached text file) and someone will 
see if this is the case.

-- 
Darren Pilgrim


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