From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 19:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553531521B; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA17188; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:35:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904230235.WAA17188@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: HELP: Novice 'network setup' In-Reply-To: <371F979A.B3AE7A2C@ibm.net> from "youlgok@ibm.net" at "Apr 22, 99 05:41:54 pm" To: youlgok@ibm.net Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@kr.freebsd.org Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG youlgok@ibm.net wrote, > I have Linksys Ether16 LAN Card(Novell NE2000 compatible). FreeBSD > version is 2.2.7-R. I have a cable modem connection. > > Please help me how do I make a connection to the Internet. The FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html#INSTALL-NICS) lists your NIC as supported. As far as FreeBSD is concerned, you are on a Ethernet; your cable modem never comes into play at all. The only question is whether you have a static IP address or use DHCP. So, do you know which it is? If you are static, you can go into /stand/sysinstall and to post-install configuration for networks. If you want to do it the 'hard' (i.e. do what /stand/sysinstall is up to behind the scenes) way, just ask. OTOH, if you are on a DHCP net... things are a bit tougher. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message