Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:24:26 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems Connecting Laptop To Modem Message-ID: <20180613102426.3874c581.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <CAP7QzkM7QnymxoOz_ZEUebaOMcE%2BwWmpv7sz6-SzjC0BHG6LCA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAP7QzkM7QnymxoOz_ZEUebaOMcE%2BwWmpv7sz6-SzjC0BHG6LCA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, can you post the output of ifconfig as the first step? Erich On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:39:11 +0000 B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> wrote: > I have several computers connected to my Internet service, though not > all at once. One is an old iMac with an outdated version of OS X. i > also have two towers that run FreeBSD/Mate and a laptop that has > FreeBSD/Xfce. > > A few weeks ago, the router I had malfunctioned and I got a Cisco > modem/router from my ISP. All of my machines could connect to the > Internet through it, but the signal wasn't very robust. The slightest > disturbance to the system, such as shutting down one of the computers, > would result in the loss of that signal. > > i went back to my ISP and exchanged that unit for one made by Arris. > I can add or remove computers from it without any problems except for > the laptop. It can't seem to connect to it, at least when it's > running FreeBSD/Xfce > > For example, I tried: > > service netif restart > > followed by pinging a website, but that didn't work. > > The Ethernet connector appears to be good. I tested it when I booted > the machine using a live CD version of an old openSUSE distro that I > happened to have on hand. > > I'm not sure what I should try next. Does anyone have any > suggestions? I could, of course, contact my ISP, but its staff, > apparently, isn't given any training on Linux and, presumably, Unix > systems. > > To be honest, it's not all that important if I can't use the laptop > right now as I've got the two tower machines. The laptop is more of a > convenience than anything else. > > By the way, the only reason I've got Xfce on it is because it > couldn't run Mate. > > Thanks. > > B. M. Jatzeck > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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