Date: 10 May 2000 22:20:41 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install network setup Message-ID: <m2k8h1acie.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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Trying BSD for the first time in a year or so, a fresh install of release 4. I've attempted a network ftp install but can't get the nertwork setup with the tools provided at install. The machine has two nics installed The install routine offers two sets of drivers, I've tried both. The messages on the emergecny terminal show "network unreachable" after plugging in the numbers. This machine is hooked to a dsl line. Its the simple ethernet kind. Once the approproiate numbers are inserted, including the gateway address. The network doesn't come up. Looking through the boot messages, it seems that the OS is finding the cards and reports them both on irq 9. I scribbled down some system messages but can't figure out what I wrote now. Looks like one is found as an ed0 device, the other as dc0, both are pci nics. Sorry I didn't get better info, but will write it to a file when I next boot FreeBSD. I haven't been able to get X up either so things are a little stark when booted. Neither of the setup tools works at all for me. Just one of those nonesense circle jerks where you keep coming up with the same useless dialog boxes. I'm used to the way "ifconfig" displays what is setup on linux boxes, but the BSD ifconfig seems only for setting up things not viewing them or helping analyize. What is a handy way to pass captured info out of the OS with no network up? I have linux on this same machine but the filesystems don't see each other. Maybe a skeleton install of winXX would provide a place to send files etc, so they can be accesss by an the online linux machine. I'm able to ping "localhost" and telnet "localhost" but can't get to any of the addresses I've given to the nics. So far I've supplied an FQDN An IP address that is the right one for my "static" DSL address. The proper Gateway address and legitimate DNS servers. All working only moments before on the same box with linux booted. As a setup tool the install "network" stuff seems a bit sparse. And provides no way to get to a usable shell. Once the install is complete, of course shells are available but still hard to tell what to do with ifconfig or route when the numbers don't work. Are there other tools, maybe in "packages" directory that will make this a little easier? So far I can't get to packages by ftp anyway, but am currently downloading many of them with linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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