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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
