On Saturday 05 March 2005 12:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Have you checked your BIOS to make ensure that pnp bios was
disabled? I've seen this problem before, and I think this was
the solution.
HTH,
Mike
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