internal ethernet not found Fujitsu Lifebook N5010

[Vince Hoffman]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jim Pazarena wrote:

> I have a brand new Fujitsu Lifebook N5010. FreeBSD 5.3 doesn't
> recognize the internal ethernet. Looking at historical posts,
> I see two others posted similar questions in the summer. With
> no positive response.
>
> The sad thing is that I tried SuSe, Knoppix and Mepis, and they
> all "auto-configure" the ethernet. I'm not flaming FBSD, heck I've got 8 FBSD 
> servers and I wouldn't run _anything_ else, but setting up a
> laptop is a nightmare.
>
> Can anyone point me in a direction which will get my ethernet going?
> Yes, I can use a PCMCIA ethernet card (which I have), but it's a
> shame to not be able to use the built-in ethernet.
>
looking at 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-July/004385.html
it looks like you may be out of luck unless yours now shows up in pciconf 
-lv . The chipset should be supported by the rl driver, although thats 
only a should of course.



> TIA
> Jim Pazarena
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