tips for writing img to usb thumb drive

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:16 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> On 2 January 2016 at 14:11, Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>> For whatever reason, the operating system can't find a network interface to
>> use and mount from.  My unsubstantiated guess is that the network card in
>> that Asus is either not supported or it is maybe one of the cards that
>> requires a firmware load.  I am not somewhere right now that I can check the
>> hardware stats to see.  You could search the DragonFly man pages using the
>> network device model number and see what it says to do, if you get a match.
>>
>
> I now have DragonFly installed on the asus! From the boot menu, I
> selected the option to escape into the loader prompt and from there I
> did loadall. I kicked off the installer and it boots up now.
> However, when I do ifconfig, I don't see the re0 driver for the wired
> connection. I do see the ath0 for wireless, but there must be some
> problem in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf because I can't connect to the
> wifi network.
>
> This is showing a RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI express gigabit ethernet
> controller for the wired connection
> and for wifi: aualcomm atheros ar9485 wireless network adepter.
>
> I believe both of these are supported on FreeBSD so I'm surprised to
> have difficulties with it on DragonFly.
>
> ifconfig and pciconf -lv pictures: http://imgur.com/a/0NbAc

Strange, it looks like re is attached according to pciconf -lv.
Possible to post the output of:
dmesg | grep re0

Thanks,
sephe