> I wouldn't, as they suck. Even the fairly sucky but less so than
> realteks can be had for under 15 EUR retail.
>

Really?

> This, Huub, is the big question. The cause does not have to be your
> network card, but it may be. Unfortunately, we do not have the
> information to answer that, only you do.
>

Ok. Wrong start.

>
>
>>I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
>>megabytes.
>
>
> And a couple of times over what you actually need to install just the
> one machine. I do feel old, remembering getting mail and news[1] over a
> 2400 baud modem. It has only been a few years.
>

On the disposed machine, I easily accessed the internet, selected the
few sets I needed and installed the bunch. Now, testing on 2 operating
systems, somehow the NIC isn't even detected.

This is when booted from CD after creating partitions and labels (manually):

[x] bsd.rd
Get name? (or 'done') [done]
Ready to install sets? [yes]
Getting bsd.rd ...
100% |.......................| 4549 KB 00:02
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done')[cd] done
'bsd' was not installed.
Are you *SURE* your install is complete without 'bsd'? [no]


I hope this shows what my problem is.