Hey everyone. I just joined the forums like 10 minutes ago and ive been struggling with a minimal installation of FreeBSD. Basically when I am going through the installation process, the system asks if i want to configure any network devices. I choose rl0 because that is the Realtek NIC card that my ethernet cable is connected to. Then the system asks if i want to configure this device for DHCP. When i choose yes, it brings me up to the window with the host/domain name/DNS server name etc etc text boxes where one is supposed to enter in the network information for that NIC card. Here is the thing: according to the handbook, if one chooses DHCP, that stuff should be automatically filled in by the system. But for some strange reason, it does not automatically fill up those boxes. Then when I try to manually fill in the information and after the installation has completed and a system reboot has been done, ifconfig -a informs me that there is no active carrier for that network device and well it wont let me ping to anything. I even tried to add ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" to /etc/rc.conf but still it wont help.. please help.. ALL help is GREATLY appreciate!!!!!