"Remorque" wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus
<ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com>wrote:
manish jain wrote:
Hi all,
I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000).
I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP
server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in
FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help
only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet
smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him.
I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to
configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it
still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses.
I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used.
Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled :
1) Obtain an IP address automatically
2) Obtain DNS server address automatically
Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone
please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece
of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far :
unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
Manish Jain
invalid.poin...@gmail.com
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I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg
| less to confirm this.
To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your
system run:
% ifconfig
You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card
configured at boot time:
ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
To configure the card from the command line simply run:
# ifconfig re0 dhcp
I would do:
dhclient re0
Is the behaviour the same?
I guess so.
If rc.conf is set up with the line ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" then it is no
need to run the dhclient command manually.
For 8139D the correct driver is rl as Michael Powell pointed out in his
reply.
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