From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 11:37:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D2437B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA07174; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Darrell Brown Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: frustrated and furious In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Darrell Brown wrote: > I'm having a difficult time loading the distribution files over ftp. > Everytime I try and download the files, I receive 'unable to resolve > ftp.freebsd.org' Then it asks me to make sure my gateway, name server and IP > address is correct, which my ISP confirmed. can you please help me??? Chances are your network card or modem isn't working. If you are using a modem, do you hear it dial? Do you see you network card device driver loaded when you boot? Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message