From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 12 11:14:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18934 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18929 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-150.laker.net [208.0.233.50]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id OAA08707; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:14:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199812121914.OAA08707@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "ken keeler" Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:11:14 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cannot connect on LAN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:01:43 -0800, ken keeler wrote: >fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:a0:c9:90:78:09 > media: autoselect Someone else may give you an authoritive answer, but I've noticed on this list that some of the ethernet drivers and/or cards don't autoselect properly. You should have a diskette that came with the card that allows you to change the board's config. Set the "port" manually, i.e., one of aui/utp/bnc. And then use the appropriate ifconfig media option in /etc/rc.conf. See man fxp for that. HTH >I feel like I've missed some detail(s), but don't know what it is. Having tried a couple of >different cards in each machine and getting the same results, I'm inclined to believe I've >overlooked something, rather than having bad cards (although all the network cards are used). The >cable is known to be good. Steve Friedrich Viva la FreeBSD!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message