From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 7:34:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E04237B915 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 07:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 13756 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 14:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ATHLON-550) (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 18 May 2000 14:36:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:35:22 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.42 Beta/19) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <164724142.20000518163522@buz.ch> To: bill fiore Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nic card w/ cable modem In-reply-To: <20000518143042.1049.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20000518143042.1049.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello bill, Thursday, May 18, 2000, 4:30:42 PM, you wrote: > i got my nic card (3com etherlink 3) to talk to my > cable modem (i can ping the cable modem) > but even with entries in my /etc/hosts file ... > i cant ping or telnet to other nodes.!!! Most cable ISPs use DHCP in order to assign you a IP. Start # /stand/sysinstall Go to the post Installation configure -> Network interface, select the NIC you want and chose to do automatic configuration if sysinstall ask you for it... HTH Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message