From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 09:31:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C2716A420 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:31:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DE943D45 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:31:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.ATOSORIGIN.ES [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E764D2E041; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:30:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43A28952.2030907@locolomo.org> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:30:58 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff D. Hamann" References: <001501c6020d$d404e9c0$0c00a8c0@mothra> In-Reply-To: <001501c6020d$d404e9c0$0c00a8c0@mothra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: argh with freebsd's networking! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:31:02 -0000 Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I > don't have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages. You shouldn't need to download any packages, drivers should be with the source code which you have on the install cds. > If anyone has any > meaningful assistance in getting the wireless or the wired ethernet > working please assist. Well: output from dmesg would be really usefull, because then we can see what the kernel identifies. Also, just output of ifconfig will give you a list of found interfaces and their current configuration. If the driver is in the kernel then the nic will appear in dmesg. Then all you have to do is: ifconfig_ / For wireless it may be more complicated because you also need to set SSID etc. > I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 i386. I downloaded the ISO images last week. I > would love to recompile the kernel so that neither works. Most nic's drivers are in the GENERIC kernel, but if not you can load the needed modules, for example: kldload if_iwi Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9