internet card

I have installed pcbsd its great :-) as most of the kde linuxs didnt work, but one problem is that my internet card isn't working. I was thinking i could install my network cards software using wine. would this work?

[DrJ]

Very doubtful. Wine works OK for some applications-level software, but not for device drivers, and that's what it sounds like you would like to do.

Let's see if the ethernet card you have -- I do assume it is an ethernet card, right? -- can be installed. Wired or wireless? In any event, please open a shell window and enter "dmesg | grep Ether" (without the quotes, of course). This will tell if the system is recognizing your card. If it does, what does it say? Then let's go from there.

DrJ

[Nik]

I think that will be better to look on the card and try to determine it's origin by eyes. This allows you to set your question correctly.

Some people like me use onboard ethernet from nvidia, which have not in-kernel support and driver only available from ports collection net/nvnet.

[DrJ]

Sure, it is good to know which card you have installed. It is even better to know what the system recognizes. If it is recognized, then ifconfig can take care of the problems. If it is not recognized, then there are other remedial steps that can be taken.

First things first.

DrJ

[Weixiong]

Not to hijack the thread, but I can't get my 2WIRE wireless card to work with PC-BSD when encryption is enabled, disable it (briefly) and it can access the net.

It also gave an error stating my WEP 128bit key (26 characters) was too long to be accepted (along with the command ?) and I had to revert to 64bit to finally get it to work at all.

WEP is next to worthless anyway, but better than nothing.

my card is a belkin 802.11g (I am the original poster of this thread) and also i have a network key on my network so how do i enter that or get past it on pcbsd?

weixong how did you enter your network key???? I dunno how???

In response to dmesg | grep Ether its replied:
rlo: Ethernet address :00:0c:76:ff:1a:4e
What does that mean?

[DrJ]

It means that the system has found your card, and that it has assigned an Ethernet address to it. That's good. You can confirm that the card is working by typing "ifconfig" from a shell window. That will give you the current setup.

It seems that your issue relates to a network key. Sorry, I haven't used wireless on FreeBSD. If that is the issue, I can't help.

DrJ

[Weixiong]

weixong how did you enter your network key???? I dunno how???

Check out "Setting Up a Wireless FreeBSD Client" in the FreeBSD Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... eless.html (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html)

It shows you how to make sure your card is recognized and the command to enter.

[DrJ]

Cool! And thanks for the link. FWIW, all of my BSD boxes are wired, and most of my Windows boxes are not. So this helps.

DrJ