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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 13:20:09 EDT
From:      Master9116@aol.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network
Message-ID:  <69.59e122c.26655249@aol.com>

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In a message dated 5/29/00 10:48:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
joel@tilapia.pang.pworld.net.ph writes:

> Hi,
>  I've installed a 4.0-stable of freebsd on my P 166 32 MB machine with a
>  Realtek 8029 NIC. I've installed this through FTP so it means my NIC is
>  working properly. My problem is when I restarted I suddenly can't use ping
>  or traceroute??? it says "no route to host" later I found out that my NIC
>  does not have an IP Address. Is there a utility that I can run so that I
>  can put the necessary IP address and subnet mask on my network card??? or
>  what files do I have to edit to make my NIC work. I'm really new to this.
>  Thanks a lot!
>  
>  

There are 2 ways that you can do this.  First, the easy way is to log in as 
root and run /stand/sysinstall  then configure -> networking -> interfaces.  
Select your interface from the list and then follow the prompts.

HTH

Dan.


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