From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Feb 8 22: 7:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60B437B41A for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 22:07:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dsl092-099-212.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.99.212]) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1968cv07341 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 00:08:38 -0600 Received: from chexmix by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ZQfK-0000Lo-00 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 01:07:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:07:14 -0500 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: step by step ... Message-ID: <20020209060714.GB1031@burningclown.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Glenn Becker Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org All, Not long ago I posted an 'ignorant networking Q' to the list, because I was having some trouble getting my laptop to do anything network-y ... as it turns out, the base problem was a faulty dongle. Everything works great now -- from the Slackware Linux side of the laptop. I'm running into difficulties over on the FreeBSD side of things, and suspect I may just have to re-install. I'd prefer to tweak, however, and try to gain some decent understanding of networking stuff. So. During bootup I see the following: route: writing to routing socket: network is unreachable add net default: gateway 66.92.99.1: network is unreachable Poking around revealed what I believe to be at least part of the problem: the routing table is pretty much empty, with the exception of the loopback value 127.0.0.1. I mean, that would pretty much prevent anything 'getting out,' am I right? Problem is, when I try to add a value to the table, using the 'route add ...' command, I get the same "network is unreachable" messages that I got during bootup. How, then, does one populate the routing table? Thanks, Glenn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message