From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 18:31:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05312 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05300; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:31:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199607300131.SAA05300@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem setting up network To: mikelin@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mike" at Jul 29, 96 05:20:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike wrote: > > Medical Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. We are having trouble setting > up FreeBSD with the network. The computer will not connect to the > Internet (pinging itself will not work). you didnt mention which version, you can use "/usr/bin/uname" to find out this information > > We have installed FreeBSD successfully on other computers in the > laboratory. The computer with which we are having difficulties is a Dell > Dimension XPS P133 with 32MB RAM. The network adapter is a 3Com Etherlink > III ISA (3C509b-Combo). I noticed that the 3C509 was labelled as > "buggy" in your documentation. Has there been a fix for this? if you are using the UTP interface on the card you need to add "link2" to the ifconfig line. here are some examples from my setup does "/sbin/dmesg" show the card? 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/utp[*UTP*] address 00:60:8c:79:b5:4a does "/sbin/ifconfig -a" show the card UP and RUNNING? ep0: flags=c843 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255 can you ping the ip address assigned to the interface? "/sbin/ping 10.0.0.1" jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB