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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:28:34 +0100
From:      Hahn0man@t-online.de
To:        "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Failure compiling MYKERNEL now:rl0
Message-ID:  <000901c0a229$9bfecda0$c7dae13e@aldiserster>
References:  <000901c0a1e2$a23161c0$f1dae13e@aldiserster> <20010301131930.A84675@itouchnz.itouch>

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Dear Jonathan, dear list,

> A `netstat -in' should list "rl0" as one of your available network
> devices.

No. It lists only gif0-gif3, lo0, pp0, sl0, faith

> # ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.2.21 netmask 255.255.255.0

anwers: ifconfig: interface rl0 does not exist.

Thorsten

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To: <Hahn0man@t-online.de>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: Failure compiling MYKERNEL


> [Please do not email me directly, always Cc: freebsd-question]
>
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:00:30AM +0100, Hahn0man@t-online.de wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I cannot reach my NIC, an Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX (V3), which I
configured
> > in MYKERNEL as rl (see also LINT).
> >
> > MYKERNEL:
> > # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
> >     device          miibus     # MII bus support
> >     device          rl            # RealTek 8129/8139
> >
> > dmesg prompts:  rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> irq 11 at device 14.0
on
> > pci0
>
> If dmesg(1) reports that your device is there, it's available for use.
> A `netstat -in' should list "rl0" as one of your available network
> devices. To actually activate it you have to put in something in
> /etc/rc.conf (which will automatically activate it after a reboot), eg:
>
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.2.21 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> Or manually set it as root with:
>
> # ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.2.21 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny"
>                                                          - Kin Hubbard


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