From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 23: 7: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C246B37BB6B for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-171.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.171] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA21831; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:07:47 +1000 From: Danny To: Kaluza-k , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Problems Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:14:11 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00062516151404.00419@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are having problems compiling the kenrel etc etc Checkout the following website :- www.freebsd.org/handbook/ www.freebsddairy.org They offer a very good step by step tutorial On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Kaluza-k wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Freebsd on my comp last night. I am running a 4 computer network in my house. Of the four, excluding the recent 486 > bsd, all the comps are running win98. I have dsl. I was planning on using the freebsd comp as a gateway to the internet and to allow > ip translation. Unfortunately, i did not realize that i need 2 network card before i installed bsd. I went out and bought 2 isa net > cards and installed them. That is where i am at. I vaguely remember hearing something about recompiling my kernal, but have no idea > how to do this. Basically, i would like to know how to get my comp to start with only the stuff it needs, make sure it recognizes my > nic cards. I have been reading on the /etc/rc.conf and what i need to do to get my ip translation to work. So if anyone can tell me > how to recompile my kernal and how to find out whether bsd recognizes my nic cards, that would be a lot of help. > > Josh > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message