From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 14 22:56:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27331 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27325 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA19218; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:56:14 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA20949; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:56:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:55:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP pendantic primer misses a step? In-Reply-To: <199811150605.TAA05897@witch.xtra.co.nz> 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 Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Dan Langille wrote: >Tonight I helped a chap out getting his network card running. He couldn't >get ifconfig to show an IP address. He claimed to be doing everything in >the manual. I suggested he do the following manually: > >ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.98 255.255.255.0 > >>From then, it worked. > >Is this a step which must be first done manually? It is done vi rc.conf on my box. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message