From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 02:40:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8261116A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (lakermmtao08.cox.net [68.230.240.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4FC43D41 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:40:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ned.woody@cox.net) Received: from nedsbsd.cox.net ([68.13.119.137]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050322024049.ZCFV18351.lakermmtao08.cox.net@nedsbsd.cox.net>; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:40:49 -0500 From: Ned Harrison Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:42:52 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503212042.53266.ned.woody@cox.net> cc: Bill Moran Subject: Fwd: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:40:52 -0000 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP Date: Sunday 20 March 2005 09:55 pm From: Bill Moran To: Ned Harrison Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Ned Harrison wrote: > I reciently upgraded my home computer to FreeBSD 5.3 p5. Sense then I've > had minor problems connecting to my ISP. During boot up it will sometimes > freeze at the line, "Configuring syscons: keymap blanktime." or I'll lose > contact with my ISP while sending an email or surfing the web. From an > earlier posting to this forum I found that "Ctrl+C" will let the system > finishing the boot up. Then I can easily connect to my ISP by running > "/etc/netstart" as root. > > Everything works fine at least for a while. However, sooner or later I'll > lose the conection again. I have not been able to discern a pattern to the > disconnects either. Yet as soon as I run netstart again everything works > again. It can be hours before I the lose the connection or sometimes I'll > lose the connection again within twenty minutes. I've searched for a > permanent fix by looking throught this forum. But I havn't found anything > yet. Though that might be because I don't quite know how to search! :-) > > I am a newbie using FreeBSD so any suggestions would be appreciated. Spend a little time in the /var/log directory and see if anything is being logged around the time you lose connection. Also, more clearly defining "lose connection" would help. What does ifconfig say when the connection is up and when it's down? The difference between those two outputs may lead you toward a solution. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ------------------------------------------------------- It didn't take too long this time. ifconfig when running. rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::20d:87ff:fe34:a64c%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 68.13.119.137 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 68.13.119.255 ether 00:0d:87:34:a6:4c media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ifconfig when not running. rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::20d:87ff:fe34:a64c%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 68.13.119.137 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 68.13.119.255 ether 00:0d:87:34:a6:4c media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 They look the same to me. The error message from Konqueror: An error occurred while loading http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050319/ts_latimes/policyoksfirststriketoprotectus: Unknown host story.news.yahoo.com Scanning the logs I didn't see any new messages or changes Between work and rehearsal, I won't be back on line until Wednesday, so until then, thank you very much for your assistence. I do appreciate it. Ned