From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 17:52:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F88F37B405 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a131.otenet.gr [212.205.215.131]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0E1qaO24891; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:52:37 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0E1qc820721; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:52:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:52:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Defryn, Guy" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel visual screen Message-ID: <20020114015237.GA20460@hades.hell.gr> References: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F352C@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F352C@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : Thread moved to -questions, from -newbies. : Please do not post general questions to -newbies. : Mail questions@freebsd.org instead. On 2002-01-14 09:02:39, Defryn, Guy wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD and it turns out that my networkcard does not show > up. > I have inserted another NIC and I probably need to modify a few things. > How can I get back to the visual screen of the kernel you see when you > install FreeBSD. > > Last week I changed a NIC in another PC and reinstalled freebsd and it > worked fine. > This time I want to avoid re-installing freebsd You don't need to reinstall FreeBSD when a simple change like replacing a NIC is done. You will usually need to take the following steps (some of which are optional, depending on your network setup): . [OPTIONAL] Recompile your kernel, to include a driver for the new NIC (if it doesn't have one compiled in already). This step can be ommited if you have a module for the new driver from previous kernel builds. . Change the network_interfaces="" line in /etc/rc.conf to include the new NIC's network interface. . Add a line in rc.conf with the setup of the new NIC. Examples of such lines can be found in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. . [OPTIONAL] Configure any firewall you're running, to include rules for the new NIC. . Reboot or run /etc/netstart, and you're ready to go. Have fun setting up your network with FreeBSD :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message