From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 21:25:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04767 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04758 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05685; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:25:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bob Webb cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Network Interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Bob Webb wrote: > Hello. Well I tried to install Free BSD on a Compaq P75 with an > integrated Ethernet NIC (PCI bus). In the initialization window, the > NIC is found and labeled lnc1 on int 11. So far so good. I then work my > way through the prompts, and get to the place to install using FTP. At > this point I type in the IP address, gateway, etc into the network > config, and the debug window says that the initialization failed > (FYI...the spelling of initialization is wrong in the debug window! It > spelled initialisation). Using VTY4, I type ifconfig -a and the command > reports that the interface is UP. But I am unable to ping it from a > different PC, so I have to conclude that the interface is not up. What does vty2 report as the error? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo