From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 1 15:13:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D5314C9E for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 15:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21648; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:06:10 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:06:10 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Paul Lee Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to install NIC under FreeBSD 3.2 release In-Reply-To: <19990801010328.2403.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Paul Lee wrote: [...] > During the boos up, I saw nothing related to NIC. (I use Linux. I believe > there should have someting like NE2000 during FreeBSD's boot). > > When I type "ifconfig -a" under root. Nothing relate to NIC shows up. It > does not have > ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 01:02:03:04:05:06 > show up. [...] Check the output of `dmesg', to see whether the kernel has recognised your NIC. If it has, you then have to add a few lines to /etc/rc.conf. eg. If your network device is "ed0", you then add: network_interfaces="lo0 ed0" ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.163.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" These override the defaults kept in /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which correspond to the example round in most current texts). Cheers. Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message