From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 16: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA3FF37BA52 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:01:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@speakeasy.org) Received: (qmail 22101 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2000 23:01:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO term3-091.speakeasy.net) (216.231.33.91) by grace.speakeasy.org with SMTP; 19 Apr 2000 23:01:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:01:41 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Just got my DSL today...AARGH!! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From my search of the archives, it seems that setting up DSL with an external modem and static IP is as simple as configuring the interface. Here is what I have added to /etc/rc.conf: #ifconfig_ed0="inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 255.255.255.0" #defaultrouter="216.231.50.1" When I boot now I get this message: /kernel: ed0: device timeout 'ifconfig -a' gives me this: lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 216.231.50.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 216.231.50.255 ether 00:00:c0:cd:f0:c8 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 It appears to me that all should be going well. However, I can't connect to anything. I wonder if this is a case of bad hardware. It's an old ISA NIC that I pulled out of a Boeing Surplus special that's labeled "SMC" and nothing else. I've never seen it working. Has anyone ever seen a similar error message as mine regarding my NIC? It seems to be the only strangeness that I've encountered. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message