Network card

[eugiin]

hi guys im new to free bsd and all and i'm trying to install freebsd 7.2/ or 8.0 on a optiplex 980 which had windows 7 originally. first i formated the hard drive and started a fresh install of freebsd but it won't recognize the network drive (LAN) and i don't know how to make it work please help thanks in advance

 

[sk8harddiefast]

What is your network card? For example i have realtek 8189 and is bringing up with re0 module
Check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET to see if is compatible with FreeBSD.
Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html

 

[User23]

Please dont scream for "HELP !!!!111eleven" this wont help you or any other in the forum.

Your NIC should be a:

Integrated Intel 82578DM GbE Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000
Optional Broadcom 1520 PCIe WLAN card (802.11 N)

The correct driver should be "em" but as you can see the driver does not support the 82578 on FreeBSD 8.0 atm.

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?...ion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html

 

[Epikurean]

If I'm allowed to add my limited knowledge to this thread: I had the same problem with my NIC: installing FreeBSD 8.1 RC2 solved the problem.