Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread PU
Hello, I have a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can help with. I built a 6.2 FBSD box and wound up with a bad NIC out of 3 and what I thought might have been a bad pci slot. I replaced the NIC with a new one, and moved the card to another slot just to make sure I took care of the

Re: Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Daneliuk
PU wrote: Hello, I have a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can help with. I built a 6.2 FBSD box and wound up with a bad NIC out of 3 and what I thought might have been a bad pci slot. I replaced the NIC with a new one, and moved the card to another slot just to make sure I took care of

Re: Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:24:47 -0500 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PU wrote: Hello, I have a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can help with. I built a 6.2 FBSD box and wound up with a bad NIC out of 3 and what I thought might have been a bad pci slot. I replaced the NIC

Re: Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread PU
Thank you all, for your replies. After messing around and trying a few things (including messing with the BIOS settings by disabling serial and parallel ports as well as manually setting IRQs), I ended up taking out one of the Netgear cards and putting in an old 3com 3c905 that I had sitting

Re: Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:44:28 -0500 PU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ended up taking out one of the Netgear cards and putting in an old 3com 3c905 that I had sitting around. good to hear it works. FWIW, i've had weird issues with netgear NICs too (not only on FBSD) - sticking to intel / 3com /

Re: Problem with a NIC in FBSD 6.2

2007-07-02 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:24:47 -0500 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PU wrote: Hello, I have a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can help with. I built a 6.2 FBSD box and wound up with a bad NIC out of 3 and what I thought might have been a bad pci slot. I