Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:53:37 +0200 (CEST) From: <ogautherot@freesurf.fr> To: <sandboxpro@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't connect to the internet Message-ID: <42716.194.98.178.34.1091012017.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040728081350.27756.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728081350.27756.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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