Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 21:31:06 -0700 From: "Erik Stainsby" <stainsby@telus.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: network setup gone bad -- boot hanging Message-ID: <000701bf1f6a$ebb70da0$cb12c2cf@ws1>
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<plea type='help!'> Here's what I (think) I did: I had ppp up and running, then tried to establish an IP address on ep0 as follows using /stand/sysinstall -> Configure -> Networks -> Interfaces -> ep0 hostname: home domain: (either balnk or lets.net, my reg'd domain) IP: 10.0.0.10 dns: <IP of dial-up providers DNS server - it was preset) gateway: 10.0.0.10 (this would have conflicted with the 0.0.0.0 of ppp) On completing the fields in the form I answered yes to bringing the iface up, and stepped back out of sysinstall. Nothing seemed ot have happened. It was then I noticed I have zero activity on the hub for that computer. Using ifconfig -a I saw that ep0 was reading alright, correct port address, and the MAC was showing. I attempted to bring up the interface by hand, something like: ifconfig ep0 10.0.0.10 up The system hung. Completely. No virtual terminals, no timeouts, not even a complaining beep from a full keyboard buffer. Dead locked. With no way to exit gracefully I power cycled the puppy. It now locks at "Doing initial network setup: hostname." It has been sitting here for half an hour this last (third) time I have hard booted. I guess at this point I need two things: 1) to be walked thru mounting FBSD HD by hand from the installation floppies, if possible; 2) to have a clue as to which file(s) need to be cleaned out, and what sort of values I need to be looking at removing. I would start mucking about in /etc/networks, then in the rc 's -- But does anyone have an educated guess what i need to look for? The system is my first attempt at FreeBSD -- 3.3-RELEASE -- and this is my third ground-up installation on the same box. There is a single dedicated 2G IDE HD installed; no boot loader. This time round I went with the X-User preprofiled installation (Amnesiac). Waiting patiently, but forlorn, Erik stainsby@telus.net </plea> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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