From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:54:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05391 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05200 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11859; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:53:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matthew Thyer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 sysinstall failure to configure network interface In-Reply-To: <361A2B55.AE47C1A0@camtech.net.au> 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 2.2.7 is not CURRENT. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matthew Thyer wrote: > I have had to install two 2.2.7 systems recently over the net and > sysinstall failed to configure the network interface in both cases. > > I think it was either an ed0 or an ep0 device. I've had this happen when the ethernet card is misconfigured and/or the cabling is not connected correctly. Sysinstall hangs at the 'adding default route' screen but it's trying to do a nameserver lookup. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message