From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 13:38:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CD137B550 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000221213856.UBFX28464.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.net>; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:38:56 -0800 Message-ID: <38B1B0D4.1D96830@home.net> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:40:36 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Falcon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting NIC to work References: <008801bf7c8b$a9f88c80$0801a8c0@main> <38B17D28.525BE2C7@home.net> <00e201bf7c9a$735ac6c0$0801a8c0@main> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you get a supported nic, it should be found when the GENERIC kernel loads. You will need to edit /etc/rc.conf for IP/gateway/hostname information to associate with the nic. Customizing the kernel will be a matter of removing unwanted/unnecessary elements as well as adding options which aren't included by default. You may have heard about vi (that's "vee-aye") which is **an** editor but your editor choice is up to you. Anyway, the online handbook and tutorials are an invaluable reference and much/some/most are installed if you choose to install documentation, which I recommend. Here's another link: http://www.freebSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html craig Jeremy Falcon wrote: > > I appreciate the URL. I'm about to go get another NIC (this one is ancient > anyway) from a friend that's on the list just to make sure. :o) It's still > going to be on an ISA bus, b/c my secondary computer only has one PCI slot > and it's being used by the video card (disabled the onboard crap you get > with OEM computers). > > Just so I can be prepared, can you please tell me what I should do after I > physically install the new NIC? I've heard something about a visual kernel > editor (?!?) or something like that, but I don't know where it is or if it > exists. > > Newbie -- Be one again for the first time! -- For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message