freeBSD pc card help


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I am trying to get my PC card in my freeBSD laptop to work with my router. I have the following lines in rc.conf regarding the pccard

pccard_enable="YES"

ifconfig_ep0="DHCP" yes ep0 is correct

network_interfaces="ep0 lo0" lo0 is loopback

When i boot i get the lights on on my pc card but ifconfig says init is 0.0.0.0 and the broadcast is 255.255.255.255 like it could not retreive the information from the DHCP. When i check the settings in my router it shows the DHCP client with the MAC adress the same as my PCCARD and it assigned it 192.168.2.24. So the router did recognize it and did assign it something but in ifconfig it just shows up as 0.0.0.0 for inet. any suggestions ive been trying different things for a long time.

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silly question to ask, but have you installed dhcpcd? i found the same behaviour in linux, it never gave me an error message, but simply reverted to 0.0.0.0 when not finding dhcpcd daemon.

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I got it to work by booting to the freeBSD cd and having sysinstall configure the card for me and it works

Although i still have another problem. The speed is really slow for some uknown reason. the most i can get is like 10 KB/s and from my other comp on same network i can get over 3MBPS

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