Attansic L1 Gigabit discovered on install but no link

[Steven Friedrich]

On Tuesday 16 February 2010 07:29:35 am Patrick Ale wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I tried to install FreeBSD 8.0 about 30 minutes ago and during the
> installation I encountered a problem.
> 
> My network card is detected but on DHCP Server discoverage I see that
> no link is detected and that the driver/dhcp discovery process is
> giving up on trying.
> 
> I understoodthat the Attansic L1 Gigabit card's support is sort of
> problematic due to the 'openness' of the documentation but I'd really
> like to know how I can help or what I can do to get this driver
> working on my Acer Aspire 8920 laptop. Buying another NIC for this
> particular thing is not really an option.

I don't want to stop you from pursuing getting this NIC working, but why don't 
you have an option here?  I would suspect that your laptop has USB ports and 
Netgear and others make USB Ethernet in wired and wireless versions. I haven't 
checked to see if any are gigabit speed, but connecting at a slower speed 
beats no connection. 8o)

You do have to select one carefully though. I bought a Netgear WG111T 
(wireless) several years ago, but it's only recently that a driver is 
available in FreeBSD, and mine doesn't work yet. A developer did buy one and 
made some changes, but I'm not sure all the issues are resolved just yet. But 
I have a Netgear FA-120 (I think)(wired) and it works just fine. I also have a 
couple LinkSys (wired), but I've lost confidence in LinkSys. I won't buy any 
of their products again.

> Any suggestion is welcome, my C programming skills are not really to
> write home about so I am afraid I can't contribute much on that point
> but if you need test dummies or feel like I can help out or if you
> need more information, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time in advance,
> 
> 
> Patrick
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