bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
hawk at slytherin.ds.psu.edu
Wed Aug 6 09:28:13 PDT 2003
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> > I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works both as an
> > external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi device, not /dev/fd0.
> > So I tried moving the drivers from the up to date machine. No dice;
> > they depend on another changed function.
> > So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd source tree is
> > only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new kernel compiling from a
> > source tree updated this morning. Am I going to have to do anything
> > else to get the bge device detected, or will it just kernel installation
> > and reboot take care of this?
> If you've compiled the driver into the kernel, all you'll have to do is
> configure the IP settings for the device. If you intend on using the
> kernel loadable module, you'll have to kldload it before you configure
> the network settings.
All is now well, and I have my regular programs building. DHCP network
configuration even worked flawlessly. I have a permanent IP for the
thing, but this (should) let me plug into the sockets at our main
library as well (and I assume it will give me less hassle with ppp,
too!)
thanks
hawk
>
> Regards,
>
> > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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