argh with freebsd's networking!
Erik Norgaard
norgaard at locolomo.org
Fri Dec 16 01:31:02 PST 2005
Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> the instructions seem to be clear enough but the problem is is that I
> don't have any network connection so I can't install ports and packages.
You shouldn't need to download any packages, drivers should be with the
source code which you have on the install cds.
> If anyone has any
> meaningful assistance in getting the wireless or the wired ethernet
> working please assist.
Well: output from dmesg would be really usefull, because then we can see
what the kernel identifies. Also, just output of ifconfig will give you
a list of found interfaces and their current configuration.
If the driver is in the kernel then the nic will appear in dmesg. Then
all you have to do is:
ifconfig_<interface> <ip>/<mask>
For wireless it may be more complicated because you also need to set
SSID etc.
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 i386. I downloaded the ISO images last week. I
> would love to recompile the kernel so that neither works.
Most nic's drivers are in the GENERIC kernel, but if not you can load
the needed modules, for example:
kldload if_iwi
Cheers, Erik
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