From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 05:58:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C986616A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4928B43D54 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i3FCwNE8012418; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:58:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <407E86EA.4010805@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:58:18 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040406) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marian Hettwer References: <23877.1082030346@www50.gmx.net> <407E8005.8010403@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <407E8005.8010403@kernel32.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Malte Dreschert Subject: Re: no internet connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:58:24 -0000 Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi Malte, > > Malte Dreschert wrote: > >> Hello, >> after experimenting a bit with Linux I wanted to try something >> different and >> installed FreeBSD. > > good idea :) > >> The installation went fine except for the network. I have a normal >> network >> card and a netgear dsl router, which is connected to the internet. I >> could >> configure the network using dhcp but I have no connection to the >> internet. >> Can someone point me in the right direction where to search for the >> solution? > > hm... I believe some more information are needed. > Please provide us with the following output: > > ifconfig -a > uname -a > dmesg > > I have no clue which Network Card you are using, and therefor which > network card is configured for dhcp. I would guess that FreeBSD > doesnīt know your NIC. So letīs fix this ;) Actually, I think it's most likely because he needs PPPoE. This might help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------