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From: "Richard Morte" <richard@sparky.uk.net>
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Subject: DHCP [ WAS: Problem Adding 2nd NIC]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:28:43 -0000
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OK everyone,

Resolved the problem with the NIC - just wasn't compatible, so I swapped it
for a spare FA310 and all is well - I now have pn0 and pn1. The FA311 has
now gone into a windows machine!

Now I have a new problem: I've added the line:
    ifconfig_pn1="DHCP"
into rc.conf

On reboot I get the message:
    ifconfig: DHCP: Bad value
and, of course, no IP address is set for the NIC.

However if I run :
    dhclient pn1
from the command prompt, I am provided with an IP address by the remote host
and I can ping the world. I'm running 3.2 - any idea what should be put in
rc.conf to start DHCP client at each re-boot?

ciao,
Ric

Richard Morte
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Morte [mailto:richard@sparky.uk.net]
Sent: 20 February 2001 18:02
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Problem Adding 2nd NIC


I'd appreciate a few pointers having tried the archives and mailing list for
relevant info.

I am adding a 2nd NIC for a cable modem. It is a Netgear FA311. I had no
problems configuring the first card, a Netgear FA310TX some time ago using
pn0.

I've added the line:
  device pn1			(with no additional parameters)
to the config file,
and then executed:
/usr/sbin/config NEWKERNEL    (which reports the new compile directory on
completion)
cd ../../compile/NEWKERNEL
make depend
make
make install

pn1 is not recognised on reboot nor with ifconfig -a. The card is working
fine. The only think I've noticed is that 'make' completes in about 2-3 mins
which seems way too short.

Can't think what else might be wrong - any clues anyone?

Ric

Richard Morte
e-mail : richard@sparky.uk.net


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