From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 23:07:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB28616A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:07:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web51402.mail.yahoo.com (web51402.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F7FE43D1F for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:07:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zhangzhaoxi2003@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 3768 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Apr 2005 23:07:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20050425230736.3763.qmail@web51402.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.156.100.64] by web51402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:07:35 EDT Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:07:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Broming plutonium To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Connecting to the Internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:07:38 -0000 Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to "tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals