From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 07:05:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from web1.rocketmail.com (web1.rocketmail.com [205.180.57.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA24546 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega1@rocketmail.com) Message-ID: <19981007135220.22324.rocketmail@web1.rocketmail.com> Received: from [129.21.224.129] by web1; Wed, 07 Oct 1998 06:52:20 PDT Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:52:20 -0700 (PDT) From: vega vega Subject: setting up ethernet interface To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG after my network connection finally came up fo me at school, i cant get a connection to the dhcp server to get my static ip so my situation is: i know the ip's of the nameservers, i don't know the gateway address, and my card is some generic kingston (uses the de driver) setting up on this network re1quires me to get a temporary ip (which i also dont know, since it is just an arbitrary one to get me to the dhcp server). with this temp ip i connect to the dhcp server on the web and register to get my permanent ip. the problem is, i cant connect to the dhcp server. i have been to Studded's page that deals with that that but when i commented out the line in rc.conf that sets up the de0 device, dhclient wont find it anymore (i also dont have an /etc/dhclient-script if that makes a difference, because i dont know where to find one) but if i give the de0 device some arbitrary ip, i get a pulse, but still cant connect to the dhcp server. im thinking my main problem is that i dont know the gateway or temp ip numbers. thanks to anyone that is still alive after reading this far... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message