Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600 From: "Bagus" <bagus@cox.net> To: "Joshua Lokken" <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: how to get it online Message-ID: <NFBBJMMIKLKCDJIPOPLFOEPJELAA.bagus@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <bc5b638504122208276c47bbba@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, > > > Hi, > > > > I hope this mailing list can help. I just installed freebsd 5.3-Release onto > > a new hard drive and I can't seem to get it online with my dhcp cable modem > > thru a linksys hub. Later it will be moving to a static ip, so any help with > > that transition now would be helpful too, but for now I have the machine at > > home and need to install software on it. > > > > If I give a > > >ifconfig > > fxp0: flags =8802 <bradcast, simplex, multicast> mtu 1500 > > options =8<VLAN_MTU> > > ether 00:a0:c9:e6:11:b1 > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > > status:active > > there's plip0 and lo0 as well... > > > > >ping freebsd.org > > ping: cannot resolve freebsd.org: Host name lookup failure. > Hostname lookup failure sounds like a dns problem to me. > Is there anything in /etc/resolv.conf ? No, there is not even a /etc/resolve.conf. What should go in there? >How is fxp0 assigned an IP? DHCP? I think so. That's the way it should be. > If so, do you have a line like the following in /etc/rc.conf: > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" That line was not in there. I added it and rebooted. The boot process now started the dhcp client, but still no actual ip address is reported in the ifconfig. > > How did you setup the Linksys? Default (out-of-the-box) settings? plugged it in, plugged cable modem into uplink, plugged this pc into one outlet, the freebsd box into another. PC works fine. Lights indicate connectivity to bsd box. > Is the DHCP server turned on at the router? What does the status > page of the router settings show? > That's supposed to be http://192.168.1.1, isn't it? I can't access that even from my pc. Any advice there would be helpful. BTW, I'm using Cox as a ISP. > The FreeBSD Handbook is a great reference: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Yes... there's more information there than I saw on first perusal. Thanks, but I'm not out of the woods yet. Bagus > > -- > Joshua Lokken > Open Source Advocate
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