From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 10:19:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sims-ha.videotron.net (faure.videotron.net [205.151.222.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6DF1521E; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:19:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from youlgok@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net ([206.231.114.216]) by sims-ha.videotron.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1998.03.08.20.27) with ESMTP id <0FAN005MXEFL8E@sims-ha.videotron.net>; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:20:18 -0400 From: youlgok@ibm.net Subject: Re: HELP: Novice 'network setup' To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , FreeBSD-Hardware , "Questions@kr.freebsd.org" Reply-To: youlgok@ibm.net Message-id: <37208FB0.B203511B@ibm.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,en-US,fr,fr-CA,fr-FR,de,ko,es References: <199904230235.WAA17188@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not static and it uses DHCP. Please help me to configure this. Thanks a lot. -youlgok "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > 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 > -- > This list contains questions and answers about use of FreeBSD in Korea. > See also the Korea FreeBSD Users Group Web pages at http://www.kr.freebsd.org > -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@kr.FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the BODY of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message