From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 14:16:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from outhub2.tibco.com (outhub2.tibco.com [63.100.100.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C7D37B403 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by outhub2.tibco.com; id OAA12073; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from na-h-inhub2.tibco.com(10.106.128.34) by outhub2.tibco.com via smap (V4.1) id xma012026; Fri, 21 Jun 02 14:15:24 -0700 Received: from mail1.tibco.com (nsmail2.tibco.com [10.106.128.42]) by na-h-inhub2.tibco.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5LLE3Fl000056 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tibco.com ([10.105.146.230]) by mail1.tibco.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GY2R1L00.IIH; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:15:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3D13972D.30302@tibco.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:14:21 -0700 From: "Aram Compeau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en,zh,fr,ja,ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Cooper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Adaptor References: <200206211635.04409.mistry.7@osu.edu> <001401c2196e$8095e7c0$7b6c6bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The GENERIC kernel is probably fine for the moment (it tends to try and pick up any devices you may have and configure them). You may ultimately want to compile a custom kernel, but there's probably no immediate need to do so. Go here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html For a good primer. Cheers, Aram Grant Cooper wrote: >Hi, simple question. I have connected to the internet successfully using >dial up PPP. My next step (baby steps) is to connect with my ethernet card. >But I am confused? I believe my ethernet card has been detected. > >ifconfig -a > >dc0: .... > >Do I have to reconfigure the kernel? And is there a dummies guide of how to >set this up? Just need a pointer to look stuff up on my own. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message