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From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
To: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: Trouble getting cable connection working
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:02:04 -0800
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On Friday 08 June 2001 16:35, Ian P. Thomas wrote:
> Well I finally got the NIC installed but I can't seem to connect.
>
> dmesg output
> al0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x11 int a irq 17 on pci0.13.0
> al0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> al0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)
>
> in rc.conf
> ifconfig_al0"DHCP"  <------------------ should be ifconfig_al0="DHCP"

Also don't forget localhost:

ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"

>
> 	I also have bpf enabled in the kernel.  This is pretty much all you
> need according to the handbook online.
>
> ifconfig -a
> al0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>         ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>         media: 100baseTX <full-duplex>
>         supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> <half-dupl
> ex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP
> <half-duplex>
>
> 	I'm going to assume that the inet shouldn't be 0.0.0.0, and the
> ether address should also be something else.  I've never had a high speed
> connection before so I don't know much about setting one up.  Any glaring
> errors here?
>
> Ian

Hope that helps,

Beech

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