From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 10: 3:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lila.inti.gov.ar (lila.inti.gov.ar [200.10.161.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE67C37B449 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar) Received: from iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar ([200.3.113.15] helo=mail.inti.gov.ar ident=fernan) by lila.inti.gov.ar with smtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 14lD0M-0005IM-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:53:06 -0300 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:01:30 -0400 From: Fernan Aguero To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: network down after install Message-ID: <20010405140130.E1396@iib005.inti.gov.ar> Reply-To: fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.2 Lines: 59 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have just installed FreeBSD for the first time and I have problems with the network connection. Details: FreeBSD-4.2 from December 2000 on a Pentium II, 300 MHz Ethernet card is a PCI Realtek 8029 (NE2000). The machine boots OK, but network is down. Inspecting the dmesg output I've found several lines with "No such device" errors, like the following: config> en ed0 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. config> po ed0 0x280 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. .. somewhere later the following line appeared (which i guess is from my ethernet card): pci0: (vendor=0x10ec, dev=0x8029) at 14.0 irq 11 The output of ifconfig -a is: faith0: flags=8000 mtu 1500 gif0: flags=8010 mtu 1280 gif1: flags=8010 mtu 1280 gif2: flags=8010 mtu 1280 gif3: flags=8010 mtu 1280 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 After this initial failure I tried building a custom kernel, and after reading HARDWARE.TXT I added the following line: device ed which is supposed to implement the driver for all NICs that emulate the NE2000. I also removed other devices (after reading section 7 of the Handbook they appeared to be redundant and useless). Now the dmesg output shows: ed0: irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 device_probe_and_attach: ed0 attach returned 2 Still ifconfig -a shows the same old devices (no ed0) and the network is down. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Fernan PS: I know the hardare and network are OK, because everything worked without problems before FreeBSD. -- Fernan Aguero Bioinformatics IIB-UNSAM fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar ICQ 100325972 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message