Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 07:42:01 -0800 (PST) From: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) To: Xiaowei Yang <yxw@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig kills my machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902080741250.16988-100000@server7.singular.com> In-Reply-To: <36BE5FC1.4487EB71@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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I always use /usr/sbin/config. However, I don't know if that matters or not. john. On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Xiaowei Yang wrote: > Hello, > > I am really sorry to bother here. Being so frustrated and having been > searched all possible literatures, I have to turn to this list at my > last try. > > I have two network interfaces fxp0 and de0 on my machine. I used to use > 2.2.6. Both cards worked fine. I cvsuped RELENG_3 and complied it > sucessfully. However, after I configured rc.conf, compiled the kernel, > reboot the machine, it died at the point: > > Doing networking initial work:hostname. > > > After it happend several times, I commented out the ifconfig command in > rc.network. The machine could boot then. I even had X-windows running. I > tried to manually configure my network cards by typing: > > ifconfig lo0 inet * > ifconfig de0 inet * netmask * > ifconfig fxp0 inet * netmask * > > However, "ifconfig fxp0" killed the machine. I lost keyboard. I tried to > uncomment the lines in rc.network and left only > network_interfaces="lo0". Still , rebooting died at the ifconfig point. > > > I donot know what caused the problem. I used > /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/usr.sbin/config/config configured the kernel. Does > it matter? > > I am will very grateful if somebody could give me a hint. > > --Xiaowei > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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