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I am running freebsd ver 3.4 on an amd k6 2 300.

I have been using it since roadrunner first came out (the last five years) as a router (way before the hardware routers came out).

On Sunday we lost connection to the Internet through it. With help from the roadrunner I deduced that it was the Ethernet card connected to the outside. I say this because if we restarted the computer we would reconnect for about 5 minutes and then the ping would skyrocket to 10k plus and the tech lost his ping to the router.

I was not the one to set it up, a friend at the time did it for me, and sadly I did not think to ask how he did it. I have been trying since Monday (when I found out what was wrong) to fix it, with no luck. I have a linksys lne100tx, a netgear fa310tx, and an smc 1244tx to use for the two network cards needed. Not one of those are detected by the computer on boot up, the only one that is, is the old smc1211tx (there were two one died)

I do not know where to start or what to do, I am not sure of how to recompile the kernel or if I should, I do not know what settings my friend put in.

I have deduced that I need to recompile the kernel with the new drivers added, but I am very wary.

Should I start over? Or just get the drivers I need? If I need to start over how would I do it?

The only version of freebsd I have access to (burned) is 3.3.

I feel awful for not knowing what to do, and stupid for not finding how to do it.

Please help me of you can

Thank you.

Both the Netgear and the Linksys should be supported, I believe they're on the FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Could be the drivers just weren't compiled into the kernel. Creating a new kernel is hardly rocket science -- there's a clear explanation in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...rnelconfig.html). Check it out, then if there's still anything fuzzy, just get back to us on this forum, several helpful types here

Regards