From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 23:51:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04149 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:51:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04132 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25432; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Hummel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking newbie needs help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Dave Hummel wrote: > > I am completely new to networking, and have a couple of (what I presume to > be simple) questions. I am getting the following message in my log: > > Oops, didn't make it. > Furthermore, I get the following at boot: > pccardc: /dev/card0: Device not configured Modify /etc/rc.conf and set pccard_enable to NO. pccard is the laptop PCMCIA insertable card controller.... > Can somebody point me in the right direction? > > The network card is Linksys EtherPCI, fully recognized as de0. That was easy; too bad you didn't write it two days earlier, or I could have answered someone else's question :) > The nature of the network: > I have set up a FreeBSD box on my campus network using dhcp. After getting > an IP address assigned, I set up my network information based on that IP > address and the proper netmask. It at least appears that everything is > funcitoning properly. The DHCP client for FreeBSD will take care of this for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message