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From: aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: networking problems
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:39:34 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
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Thanks for your help. After a bit of fiddling, I found that manually
entering 'ifconfig vx0 {my IP address} got the thing working.
Now - how to make this happen automatically at boot?
On 2 Apr 1997 15:05:16 GMT, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian
Somers) wrote:
>In article <33417332.3253357@news.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
> aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca writes:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am working with FreeBSD 2.1.6. After installing, I am having some
>> networking problems. I try to ping a host on my network, and I am
>> getting an error message - "no route to host".
>>
>> Is this a symptom of a mis-configured network card? I have a 3Com
>> 3C90X. In the Userconfig utility, I saw no mention of this card - only
>> the 3C50X. Are these cards alike enough to operate with the same
>> driver?
>
>What do "dmesg" and "netstat -rn" say ?
>
>> Is there any way of starting up the Userconfig utility than entering
>> -c at the boot prompt?
>
>Nope.
>
>--
>Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
Allen Unrau
Red River Community College
aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca