Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:53:54 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "William Gordon Rutherdale" <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground Message-ID: <3a142e750901101153x66d0099dxa871dce07df32175@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4968EDAF.40108@utoronto.ca> References: <4968EDAF.40108@utoronto.ca>
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On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hi. > > I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting > basic ethernet connectivity working. > > I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old > virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. > > The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something > called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However > dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. > > I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, > but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried > installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in > the past including various versions of Linux. > > Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device > properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a > simpler step I missed? > > What steps can I take to get this interface working? > > -Will > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. -- Paul
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