[PC-BSD Testing] PC-BSD 7 Installation

[Bill Leeper]

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I have an onboard NIC that works just fine. This is a card I picked  
up for use with SkyOS, which i found out after the fact would not  
work with the D model either, and it has failed detection in BSD and  
Linux. I was very surprised when the Open Solaris Live CD detected  
the card but said there was no driver installed for it. Also, if it  
would be helpful if I posted the hardware portion of dmesg I would be  
happy to do so.

All in all Alpha7 would be called Beta7 by just about anybody else.  
That is one of the things I really like about PC-BSD, you people do a  
heck of a good job with your coding.   :-)


On May 6, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Kris Moore wrote:

> I had to re-compile all the included nvidia drivers for FreeBSD 7.  
> I'll
> be uploading a new alpha ISO later this week with these fixes in it.
>
> As for your NIC, does it work in BSD at all?
>
> -- 
>
> Kris Moore
> PC-BSD Software
> http://www.pcbsd.com
>
>
> Bill Leeper wrote:
>> OK, so far the only problem I have had with the hardware side of the
>> installation is with my video card. For some reason it does not  
>> like my
>> nVidia 8500GT with 512 MB of RAM. None of the nVidia drivers  
>> worked and
>> neither did the plain nv driver. I am running it in vesa mode. I  
>> might
>> add that the card works perfectly with previous versions.
>>
>> I do have a second NIC card in the system which is not detected at  
>> all.
>> It is an old Realtek 8139/D that I was trying to use in SkyOS. It
>> doesn't work there either.   :-)
>>
>> Other than that everything else I have tried works.
>>

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