From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 17: 8:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3604837B4EC for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:08:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-920.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.20]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA30944; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:08:42 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Anis Badri , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0 does not appear Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:06:30 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="" References: <20010212231127.16263.qmail@web3501.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010212231127.16263.qmail@web3501.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021219080000.00260@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Anis Badri wrote: > > > Hello I am a newbie to FreeBSD and wanted to ask about an issue related to NIC card installation. > > I bought an SMC EZ isa nic card and plugged it into an open ISA slot on my machine. > > Next I booted up and did the following: > > ping localhost -- It worked > This has nothing to do with your nic, of course. > Next I tried ifconfig ed0 -- and the system returned stating that an ed0 device was not installed. > > I ran /stand/sysinstall and went through the network configuration menus but never saw the ed0 device. > > ifconfig -a returned > > ppp0, lp0, s10 but not ed0. > > I am not sure what I am missing. > > My goal is to configure PPPOE so that I can access the internet over the internet. > > Thanking you in advance for your time. > > Anis T. > > Send the output of dmesg. The card obviously isn't getting picked up properly. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message