On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:35:34 -0500
  "Tarun Kundhi" <tkundhi at inebraska dot com> wrote:

> I understand what you are saying. That is exactly what I've done on 
>preivous hardware. My problem is this time these NIC or more 
>accurately interfaces are built onto the motherboard and are not 
>recognized at all. When I use option 1 and go through the process the 
>result is "No link-up detected." I've tested the cables and they are 
>good. I get lights on the ports when I plug cables into them. I'm 
>thinking I should try booting from a Linux live CD to see if the 
>interfaces are recognized under something other than FreeBSD.

Ooops... Well, if it is the autodetection, you can try assigning 
interfaces and telling it em0 and em1 to see if that works.  As to 
linux, it won't help here.  Try Chris's Live installer on a Freesbie. 
 That will tell you what FreeBSD sees them as, or if it sees them.

                               Lee