Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:18:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Wilson <tjw43@drexel.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: troubling configuring wireless nic Message-ID: <2460865.1188922714431.JavaMail.tjw43@drexel.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
This is my first time experimenting with FreeBSD and UNIX-based systems in general. I am trying to configure a wireless nic on my laptop, which is a windows-free bsd dual boot system. At home, I can access the internet in Windows through a router which also connects my destop (a windows xp machine) to my internet cable connection. When in FreeBSD, I run ifconfig and it indicates that the nic is running and gives its inet address, one which is different from the ip address given in windows. When I ping the address given by ifconfig, it shows a connection. When I ping the the gateway given for the windows machines (the ip address of the router) I get nothing in FreedBSD. So, I edited the /etc/hosts file. I entered the windows ip address for the router into the /etc/hosts file as the local host. Then I edited /etc/rc.config file to assign the ip address given in windows to the inet address of the nic. When I save the files and reboot, I get this message which repeats itself several times: "login : Sep 4 11:24:49 sm--mta[561]: NOQUEUE : SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon0: cannot bind: can't assign requested address Sep 4 11:29:37 sm-mta[561]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket" After this message flashes at boot up, I login as root and try to check the etc/rc.config file but the system responds: "Permission denied". when I run vi on /etc/config, it opens as a blank file. What do I need to do different?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?2460865.1188922714431.JavaMail.tjw43>