From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 13: 4:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from idscc05.onewest.net (idscc16.onewest.net [199.104.81.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8DF37B422 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from terry (du212.idfl-223.onewest.net [12.7.223.212] (may be forged)) by idscc05.onewest.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fBSL0YT06746 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:00:34 -0700 Message-ID: <00ab01c18fea$07c736e0$0400a8c0@terry> From: "printery-blkft" To: Subject: 3c509 nic, kernel, resulting confusion??? Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:53:03 -0800 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running 4.4 stable with a 3c509c nic, i've csvuped and went thru buildworld, etc. with no errors and i've been trying to get it set up for over a week now and i've not been successful. I have a 56k frame with 16 ip#'s and a rh box connected to a cisco router that's up and i'm trying to get my fbsd box hooked via the switch to it too but it won't even ping 127.0.0.1 here's what i have set so far, maybe someone can help?? in etc/rc.conf i've added... ifconfig_ep0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.67" netmask="255.255.255.240" defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.65" device ep0 isn't in /dev and i've tried to add it with /dev/MAKEDEV ep0 but it says device not present ifconfig -a gives me... ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.67 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.79 inet6 fe80::260:8f:fe20:1cca%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ehter 00:60:08:20:1c:ca media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP netstat -rn gives me... 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0 xxx.xxx.xxx.64/28 link#1 UC 1 0 ep0 Internet6 has these lines... fe80::%ep0/64 link#1 UC ep0 ff02::%ep0/32 link#1 UC ep0 dmesg has... ep0: <3com 3c509-combo etherlink III at port 0x210 irq 11 on isa0 ep0: