Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:30:20 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding NIC to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020622062339.B611-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> In-Reply-To: <00c601c2199c$1da8f5c0$7b6c6bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net>
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Grant Cooper wrote: > When you add a nic to Window's you have a disk of drivers that you > install? Not so with FreeBSD. The drivers come with the operating system. On the box of the NIC it also says it has drivers. So I am > trying to install my card so I can get DSL. What kind of nic (ethernet card) is it? > The only problem is I > can't get connectivity. I followed the step's modifying ppp.conf. I > see that my network card is sending something, but I'm not getting the > LARGE P to appear. You probably need to use DHCP for your Ethernet card that goes to your DLS modem. Not PPP. > > My second question is, the tun<#> command. Probably not relevent. Tun and ppp are normally for telephone modems. I am currently using tun0 but I > also have available tun1. One for my modem and one for my NIC card I think. > When I add another NIC card, will I have a tun2? No. If your nic is a RealTek 8139 is is rl0, the next is rl1, etc. If your nic is an Intel EEpro100 the first is fxp0, the next is fxp1 etc. Each different type of Ethernet card has a differnce device name in /dev What does "dmesg" say? -- Bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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