Ethernet trouble - Moved drive

[joplass]

I acquired a laptop, not new but new to me coming off lease. I moved the SSD with 12.1-RELEASE on it from one computer to the laptop. I figured out the mountroot> issue but it looks like the computer can't go online. I put back the HDD with windows and it went online while wired to the router. While the FreeBSD SSD was in there it complained about Broadcom not connected.

Is there a way to install a driver using some king of live disk? What image would you advise?

I have moved FreeBSD installations from one box to another before without a hiccup.

Thank you,

 

[Phishfry]

I am not sure what the name is of your Broadcom wired ethernet.
Could be bge(4) I dunno.

Chapter 14. Configuration, Services, Logging and Power Management

This chapter explains much of the FreeBSD configuration files, how to enable or disable a service, how to configure the logging system and the power management area.

www.freebsd.org

One easy way to get it going is use this setting in /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP"
This is a catch-all for ethernet.
You also might want to comment out your existing ifconfig_xxx line.

 

[joplass]

Thank you for putting me on the right path. I had to change my interface to "em0".

Another hurdle, x does not start. I have an Nvidia installation on that disk. How can I work the issue? I use slim an desktop.spectrwm in xsessions.

The system is looking for xorg.conf in /usr/local/share/X11/ instead of using nvidia-driver.conf in /usr/locat/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

Thanks in advanced.