Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:01:30 -0400 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: network down after install Message-ID: <20010405140130.E1396@iib005.inti.gov.ar>
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Hi I have just installed FreeBSD for the first time and I have problems with the network connection. Details: FreeBSD-4.2 from December 2000 on a Pentium II, 300 MHz Ethernet card is a PCI Realtek 8029 (NE2000). The machine boots OK, but network is down. Inspecting the dmesg output I've found several lines with "No such device" errors, like the following: config> en ed0 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. config> po ed0 0x280 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. .. somewhere later the following line appeared (which i guess is from my ethernet card): pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10ec, dev=0x8029) at 14.0 irq 11 The output of ifconfig -a is: faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500 gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 gif1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 gif2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 gif3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 After this initial failure I tried building a custom kernel, and after reading HARDWARE.TXT I added the following line: device ed which is supposed to implement the driver for all NICs that emulate the NE2000. I also removed other devices (after reading section 7 of the Handbook they appeared to be redundant and useless). Now the dmesg output shows: ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 device_probe_and_attach: ed0 attach returned 2 Still ifconfig -a shows the same old devices (no ed0) and the network is down. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Fernan PS: I know the hardare and network are OK, because everything worked without problems before FreeBSD. -- Fernan Aguero Bioinformatics IIB-UNSAM fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar ICQ 100325972 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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