From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 23:14:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fusion.unixfreak.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3305D37BD94 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 23:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by fusion.unixfreak.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e4U6DNV02885; Mon, 29 May 2000 23:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200005300613.e4U6DNV02885@fusion.unixfreak.org> Subject: Re: network In-Reply-To: from Joel Eusebio at "May 30, 2000 05:40:47 am" To: Joel Eusebio Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 23:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_de0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" Replace de0 with your device name, etc. For more information: man ifconfig man rc.conf --bhishan > Hi, > I've installed a 4.0-stable of freebsd on my P 166 32 MB machine with a > Realtek 8029 NIC. I've installed this through FTP so it means my NIC is > working properly. My problem is when I restarted I suddenly can't use ping > or traceroute??? it says "no route to host" later I found out that my NIC > does not have an IP Address. Is there a utility that I can run so that I > can put the necessary IP address and subnet mask on my network card??? or > what files do I have to edit to make my NIC work. I'm really new to this. > Thanks a lot! > > ------------------------>jOEl > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Bhishan Hemrajani / bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org / PGP: 0xFAC75561 Finger bhishan@fusion.unixfreak.org for more information. The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message