From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 12:54:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11709 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.96.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11599 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from agignac@uoguelph.ca) Received: from ccshst01 (ccshst01 [131.104.96.14]) by ccshst09.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA13321 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:53:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Gignac X-Sender: agignac@ccshst01 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help. (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I still can't get my FreeBSD box to address the network here at the house and I'm running out of ideas. I've recompiled the kernel and only the vx0 devices are being probed for. All other NIC's have been commented out of the configuration file. My NIC is a "3Com EtherLink III Combo (3C900)" rc.conf network_devices="vx0 lo0" ifconfig_vx0="inet 172.16.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" How can I test that the actual hardware is responding to the OS? What am I missing here? Do I have to play with the routing tables? Signed.... tired and confused! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andre~ Gignac The University of Guelph Globally Integrated Solutions Inc. mailto:agignac@uoguelph.ca mailto:andre@globally.com http://www.uoguelph.ca/~agignac http://www.globally.com ========================================================================