Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:40:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "John M. Papalia" <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: gregory kinney <mycotropic@hotmail.com> Subject: Some actual help (Was: it just goes on and on.......) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909162031080.21268-100000@copland.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990916202713.009452e0@unix01.voicenet.com>
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George -
First, one of the earlier writers (lost his name) was correct... more
information is really needed... that being said...
My answers may sound naive or simple, but I thought I'd take a stab at
this (slightly out of order)... Anything i'm wrong on, I hope someone will
(gently) correct it.
Your kernel code would be in /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC on a new install.
Take that file, and copy it naming it to your machines name (ex, I copied
GENERIC to MERLIN). Editing your new file will then get you on your way
there. For ethernet, you want to make sure you have as a minimum the
following lines added or uncommented:
pseudo-device ether
device <ethernet device name here>
There is the question though as to which ethernet device you'd need, which
will be deteremined by the model card you have. After determining which
ethernet device name you'll need, you'll want to make sure that those
exist in /dev. If they don't, you'll want to cd /dev and then ./Makedev
<devicename>. For example, ./Makedev vx0. Copy your original kernel (ie:
cp /kernel /kernel.orig) just in case you need to boot to it again. Then
the instructions in the book should be good for recompiling and installing
the kernel (from within the /sys/i386/conf/ directory).
After getting your kernel configured to match your specific system, it
would be wisest (as someone already mentioned) to get one ethernet card
working, and then proceed to getting the other one going as well. The
file you'll want to edit is /etc/rc.conf Within that file you'll need to
insert some additional information. About 20 lines down, you'll need to
edit the "network_interfaces" line, adding your interface device names
there. For example, my configuration has two cards - one to an internal
net, one to the outside. My lines are as follows:
network_interfaces="fxp0 fxp1 ppp0 lo0 tun0"
# List of network interfaces (lo0 is
# loopback).
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_fxp1="inet 128.175.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
I'm not sure how to get the system to re-read /etc/rc.conf without
rebooting - maybe someone else can shed some light on that. Otherwise, I'd
say reboot :) After you reboot, issued the command ifconfig -a and
hopefully you will see your card is connected and purring along with the
message "active" as can be seen here:
merlin# ifconfig -a
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
ether 00:a0:c9:6c:a9:23
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
10baseT/UT
Simply put though, you're not gonna be going anywhere until you match up
which device goes along with your ethernet card.
Hope this helps, and I hope that someone will chime in with more useful or
more correct information if need be.
Regards,
John
> >to work - is getting any ethernet cards to work in any way;
> >
> >i need to have 2 cards to bridge 2 subnets
> >they are in the machine
> >they are 3com
> >i have addresses for both subnets
> >they are pluged in
> >the jacks are live
> >the machine is on
> >unfortunately i have NO eo0 or eo1 or vx0 or vx1
> >thats about all there is to work with
> >wont mount eo0 or eo1 or vx0 or vx1
> >
> >so how in the world do you mount an ethernet device????
> >the networking comands exist in rc.config!!!!
> >(for one of them anyway)
> >where are the devices?
> >i certainly cant find them!
> >
> >and i cant recompile the kernal, inserting them, cause i cant find the
> >kernel source on the location specified in the book!!!
> >i TOLD the install wizard to install all of the /src
> >but apparently it descided not to!
> >
> >anyway - i am 4 more hours into an instilation that is about 12 hours old
> >and STILL CANT FIND AN IP ADDRESS!!!
> >
> >thanks all
> >
> >greg kinney
> >
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