Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, after a bit of searching it seems you have Marvell Yukon Gigabit ethernet. I have a similar controller on my Asus motherboard, and it works with: device sk in the kernel config. However, I am not positive this driver will work for you, as the chipset is slightly different. it i

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the fact that getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied (and most costly) I can't afford to spend another minute trying to get my new laptop up and running with FreeBSD. trying to have modern laptop running anything o

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jeff D. Hamann wrote: the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I don't have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages. You shouldn't need to download any packages, drivers should be with the source code which you have on the install cds. If any

Re: argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-15 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thu 15 Dec 05 23:54, "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the > fact that getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied > (and most costly) I can't afford to spend another minute trying to > get my new laptop up a

argh with freebsd's networking!

2005-12-15 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years now, expect for the fact that getting a NIC is always a gamble. Since time is limtied (and most costly) I can't afford to spend another minute trying to get my new laptop up and running with FreeBSD. I've recently purchased a laptop (sager 3880 --