From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 1:51:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90F137B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 01:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-139.netcologne.de [213.168.64.139]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02082; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:51:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e858pIj01607; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:51:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:51:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Moritz Hardt Cc: Siegbert Baude , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ethernet configuration 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 Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Moritz Hardt wrote: > Thanks for the fast reply to my question, but that didn't really help, > because there aren't any usable devices, such as ed0 or eth0. > > Im pretty sure FreeBSD finds my ethernet card, You can be 100% sure by looking at the output of the dmesg(8) command. For example, I have: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xb000-0xb03f irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:27:e1:f7 miibus0: on xl0 nsphy0: on miibus0 nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto If your card isn't recognized by the kernel, then either the module isn't loaded (see kldload(8), kldstat(8), etc...), or you haven't configured/compiled your kernel with the corresponding driver. > but why aren't there those devices and how can I create them. A common misconception with BSD is that many devices have a direct kernel interface and aren't found in the /dev directory. This is the case with ethernet cards. You only need to do two things: Have the kernel recognize the card (explained above) and configure the interface with ifconfig, or with the more userfriendly: /stand/sysinstall "Configure -> Networking -> Interfaces" > Ps: Your OS is great!!! Yes! I think so too. (This is a mailing list. We are all users just like you. :) -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message