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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring a FreeBSD LAN?
Date: 6 Jun 1995 11:21:27 +0200
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Halaster <halastr@usr4.primenet.com> wrote:
>I have two machines both running FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 at home. Each
>machine has a 3com 3c503 ethernet card, but neither seems to be recognized
>when I try to detect /dev/ed0 or /dev/ed1.
One can consider this being an inconsistency, but network devices do
not have /dev entries in BSD. Simply try to run ifconfig with the
device names (ed0, ed1 etc.). If you need information about existing
devices, run netstat -i.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)