From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 20: 6: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFAA37BD92 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: from bronyaur (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA23947; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002201bfaa75$7a80a510$555be3d8@telocity.com> From: "Otter" To: "R Joseph Wright" , References: Subject: Re: Just got my DSL today...AARGH!! Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:06:52 -0400 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 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG something else that may help: my isp provides me a static ip, yet if i try to config it as static, it doesn't work. i have to set it up as DHCP and it works like a champ, giving me the same ip every time. one of their employees explained it's operation to me once. it just didn't make sense to me WHY they do it that way. try setting your nic in rc.conf to "DHCP" instead of inet xxx.xxx.. netmask xxx.xxx...." it's worth a shot. -Otter p.s. my isp is telocity ----- Original Message ----- From: "R Joseph Wright" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 7:01 PM Subject: Just got my DSL today...AARGH!! > >From my search of the archives, it seems that setting up DSL with an > external modem and static IP is as simple as configuring the > interface. Here is what I have added to /etc/rc.conf: > > #ifconfig_ed0="inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" > #defaultrouter="216.231.50.1" > > When I boot now I get this message: > > /kernel: ed0: device timeout > > 'ifconfig -a' gives me this: > > lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 > ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.231.50.255 > ether 00:00:c0:cd:f0:c8 > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > > It appears to me that all should be going well. However, I can't connect > to anything. I wonder if this is a case of bad hardware. It's an old ISA > NIC that I pulled out of a Boeing Surplus special that's labeled "SMC" and > nothing else. I've never seen it working. > Has anyone ever seen a similar error message as mine regarding my NIC? It > seems to be the only strangeness that I've encountered. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message