Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:09:08 +0900 From: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> To: apeak@softhome.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get online Message-ID: <20040415210654.0D06.LUKEK@meibin.net> In-Reply-To: <courier.407E79BD.00005393@softhome.net> References: <407E03E0.5040202@daleco.biz> <courier.407E79BD.00005393@softhome.net>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:02:05 -0600 apeak@softhome.net spake thus: > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: > > > apeak@softhome.net wrote: > > > >> I just installed FreeBSD 5.1, but I can't get online. When I > >> try to ping yahoo, it either hangs or gives me an error message. > >> > > Can you "ping 66.218.71.114"? Also, what > > is the text of the error message? > > > > Kevin Kinsey > > DaleCo, S.P. > > > > > When I ping www.yahoo.com it says "Cannot resolve www.yahoo.com: Host name > lookup failure". > > When I ping 66.218.71.114 I get "ping: sendto no route to host". > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ooh ok well you don't have _any_ networking setup by the looks of things. Are you on cable or a LAN of some description? If so you will need to give your box some basic information edit /etc/resolve.conf and enter your NS details. Edit rc.conf and add information about IP address and default router and reboot and you should be good to go. Enjoy LukeK -- Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
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