From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 16:51:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA26749 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:51:15 -0700 Received: from mail.tamu.edu (MAIL.TAMU.EDU [128.194.103.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA26743 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:51:11 -0700 Received: from vcsun2.tamu.edu (vcsun2.tamu.edu [128.194.169.97]) by mail.tamu.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id SAA03283 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:51:08 -0500 Received: from vcsun1.tamu.edu by vcsun2.tamu.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11731; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:49:50 -0500 Received: by vcsun1.tamu.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07279; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:48:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:48:35 -0500 From: tbrown@vcsun2.tamu.edu (Tom Brown) Message-Id: <9504042348.AA07279@vcsun1.tamu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: HELP: ifconfig problem Cc: tbrown@vcsun2.tamu.edu X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i am trying to connect a freebsd 2.0 486dx machine a thin ethernet network and when i try the following: ifconfig le0 128.194.169.53 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 128.194.169.255 i get the message: ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface when i try dmesg, i get the following: le0: no board found at 0x300 le0 not found at 0x300 however, i have an ethernet card installed which worked when i was running freebsd 1.5.1 on this machine a month ago. it has not been tampered with. any ideas? thanks, tom -- Tom Brown loc: Wiesenbaker 232-E Graduate Research Assistant email: tbrown@vcsun1.tamu.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering www: http://tam2000.tamu.edu/~tbb6141 Texas A&M University phone: (409)-845-5774