From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 16:07:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:07:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us ([209.129.95.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07280 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us) Received: from luciamar.k12.ca.us (intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us [209.129.95.252]) by intergate.luciamar.k12.ca.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09889; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35E6D5E3.6D7B70D6@luciamar.k12.ca.us> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:08:03 +0000 From: David Knapp Organization: LMUSD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Kok , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: network card References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Be forewarned: Newbie response! you need to man ifconfig - also try to login as root and load /stand/sysinstall -i think and scroll down to where it says post install configuration then go to network installation also I've found the /var/log/messages file - which tells you what happens upon boot to be helpful when trying to figure out what parameters your system thinks your nic should be running with. David Knapp Jason C. Wells wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Peter Kok wrote: > > >Hello > > > >i am successful to install mininal freebsd > > > >now i want to add network card to computer > >how do i configure network card to ethernet network? > >which does command i use or which file i should configure? > > Didn't I just help you do the network install? Your network card should > already be working. > > At any rate, you should configure your network card during boot. You have > to edit any/all of the following files to get simple networking working. > > /etc/rc.conf > /etc/hosts > /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/host.conf > > Read the necessary man pages as well. To learn how to read man pages type > 'man man' at the prompt. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- David Knapp 805 473-4353 PC Network Specialist dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us LMUSD Seen on t-shirt--> Question Evolution To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message