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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:06:10 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Paul Lee <donatellol@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to install NIC under FreeBSD 3.2 release
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9908021002240.20376-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <19990801010328.2403.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Paul Lee wrote:

[...]
> During the boos up, I saw nothing related to NIC. (I use Linux. I believe 
> there should have someting like NE2000 during FreeBSD's boot).
> 
> When I type "ifconfig -a" under root. Nothing relate to NIC shows up. It 
> does not have
> ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>      inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>      ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
> show up.
[...]

Check the output of `dmesg', to see whether the kernel has recognised
your NIC. If it has, you then have to add a few lines to /etc/rc.conf.
eg. If your network device is "ed0", you then add:

	network_interfaces="lo0 ed0"
	ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.163.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"

These override the defaults kept in /etc/defaults/rc.conf (which
correspond to the example round in most current texts).

Cheers.

Jonathan Chen                         | "Vini, vidi, velcro...
                                      |    I came, I saw, I stuck around"



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