From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 09:33:20 2003 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 5712616A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:33:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.pro.sk (proxy.pro.sk [212.55.244.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635C143FDF for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from prosa@pro.sk) Received: from peter (Peter [192.168.1.53]) by ns.pro.sk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hB3HX6s1022044; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:33:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from prosa@pro.sk) Message-ID: <004201c3b9c3$83141ac0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> From: "Peter Rosa" To: "Olaf Hoyer" References: <002d01c3b9bf$9a5723c0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20031203180935.U26474@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:33:06 +0100 Organization: PRO, s.r.o. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030217) (ns.pro.sk) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Multiple RealTect adaptors 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: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:33:20 -0000 Hello again, of course, everything was there: dmesg - YES ifconfig - YES rc.conf - YES But, whenever the machine boots, ifconfig returns: rl0: flags 8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.11 netmask ether media status: active rl1: flags 8843 mtu 1500 ether media status: no carrier Both have the same flags. Second has no IP/MSK/BCAST. ifconfig rl1 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 always returns config: ioctl (SIOCIFADDR): File exists What could be wrong ? It is the same when I xchange both cards/use another PCI slots. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olaf Hoyer" To: "Peter Rosa" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: Re: Multiple RealTect adaptors > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Peter Rosa wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > I already have found MAKEDEV all in /dev folder. Started, finished, no > > progress. The card is physically OK. > > > > While trying to reconfigure eth card via > > ifconfig rl0 create inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > it returns err: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid agrument. > > > > What do I do wrong? And how could I make the card work ? > > Hi! > > Well, as the output states, your arguments to ifconfig are incorrect. > > to check if the card is recognized: > > dmesg |grep rl0 > > when it appears, do a: > > ifconfig -a > > to see, if a rl0 interface is there. > > to simply configure it, do: > > ifconfig rl0 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > shall be sufficient. > > To make it permanent during bootup, insert in /etc/rc.conf: > > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > HTH > Olaf > > -- > Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net > Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, > ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. > (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese) >