From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 15 02:10:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com (surf11.cruzers.com [205.215.232.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA11004 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@litzinger.com) From: brian@litzinger.com Received: (qmail 7847 invoked by uid 100); 15 Nov 1998 10:08:59 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 02:08:59 -0800 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, "Jason C. Wells" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP pendantic primer misses a step? Message-ID: <19981115020859.A7836@top.worldcontrol.com> Mail-Followup-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199811150605.TAA05897@witch.xtra.co.nz> <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.9i In-Reply-To: <199811150701.UAA16239@witch.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 08:02:56PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >Tonight I helped a chap out getting his network card running. He > > >couldn't get ifconfig to show an IP address. He claimed to be doing > > >everything in the manual. I suggested he do the following manually: > > > > > >ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.98 255.255.255.0 > > > > > >>From then, it worked. > > > > > >Is this a step which must be first done manually? > Sorry. I omitted that point in my original post. The user had something > like: > > ifconfig_ed1="inet 192.168.0.98 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > in /etc/rc.conf. But until the above mentioned step was done manually, > ifconfig -a did not show an IP address. I guessing but in rc.conf you generally have to set: network_interfaces="lo0 ed1" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback). ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.0.98 netmask 255.255.255.0" Did you add ed1 to network_interfaces? I do not know if all version of FreeBSD require that, but at least some do. -- Brian Litzinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message