From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 10:53:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B7316A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DA343D60 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:53:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ogautherot@freesurf.fr) Received: from freesurf.fr (arlette.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.12]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 11C9C2A63D5; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:53:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 194.98.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ogautherot) by arlette.freesurf.fr with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:53:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42716.194.98.178.34.1091012017.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:53:37 +0200 (CEST) From: To: X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <20040728081350.27756.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728081350.27756.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to the internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:53:39 -0000 Hi there! Welcome to FreeBSD! Just to cover my a... beware that technical questions should be sent to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. I think this one is borderline but anyway... > I'm can't connect to the internet. I have my computer > connected to a router via NIC. the lights on the > router are lit and so are the lights on the NIC. Thus, > I know i have a connection. I tried ping -c 10 > 192.168.1.1 and all i got was > ping: sendto: No route host The best is to check how your NIC card is configured: ifconfig -a It should indicate what card type you're using and how the network is initialized. See the man page, which is well detailed. What router are you using? Like a Linux or Windows machine or is it an "embedded" router (one of thoses boxes that connect to an ADSL line on one end and share it with 4 or 8 computers)? Without this info, it is difficult to get you started. > I can't seem to find a simple to tutorial on this > specific problem of just connecting to the internet > through a router. I have found how to make your pc a > router and connecting via serial cables and modems, > but this is different. To make your PC a router, you need to have an Internet access in the first place, that's right :-) Basically, it should be "plug-and-play". My first advice would be to configure FreeBSD as a DHCP client and let the router do the config for you. When I first installed FreeBSD, my wife was using our connection on a Windows PC and, by the time the install finished and I could log in, FreeBSD was already online: ping, portinstall, mozilla, etc. worked flawlessly. Let us have more details about your LAN if this does not help. Cheerio Olivier