Re: Connecting to the Internet
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Broming plutonium wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. :-) I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD comes with a handbook. You can find it on your disk at /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html (HTML version) /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.txt (plain text version) You can view the text version with the command 'less /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.txt' If you have the X window system running, and have a web browser (mozilla or firefox) installed, reading the HTML version is probably nicer. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? If you run the command 'ifconfig', you'll see which interfaces are available. On my system it returns this: re0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=18VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet 10.0.0.150 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:11:09:8b:c2:58 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 You can forget about plip0 (it is shown because the system has a parallel port) and lo0 (that's the loopback interface). In my case re0 is the ethernet card. To see if you have a active ethernet card, run the following command (without the quote-marks) 'dmesg|grep Ethernet' On my system it returns: re0: RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xcfffbf00-0xcfffbfff irq 16 at device 11.0 on pci0 re0: Ethernet address: 00:11:09:8b:c2:58 This shows that I have a RealTek ethernet chip, that uses the re driver. It is also listed in the ifconfig output. What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! That depends. We need more information in order to tell you anything usefull. Do you have a DSL modem that has an ethernet connection? Or do you dial in via a modem? Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards pgpNLW0C2AA6R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Connecting to the Internet
On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Sorry--my DHCP server is a Linksys router which is supposed to assign an internal IP address automatically, whenever a computer asks for it. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. Umm...how do I do that again? Do I just go to /stand/sysinstall, click on Index, and click on Network Interfaces? What do I put down for the host and domain? The host is the computer name, I suppose, but I don't think I assigned my LAN a domain. I accidentally put something for the domain, and now I can't erase it because whenever I leave a textbox my computer automatically refills it with what I wrote earlier. In fact, I can't change any settings because it will refill itself whenever I try to. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. I tried that a minute ago, but it only got me into even deeper trouble. I'm so careless that I forgot to put a quote, and now my computer wouldn't boot properly. It only allows me to log on as a single user, and has # thing instead of $ or computername: How do I open a text editor to edit the rc.conf file while I'm not logged in (I don't think so), and while every command has # in front of it? vi wouldn't work, and view and ex don't work either. I also have a copy of the original rc.conf file; how do I dump the data into the current rc.conf file which is driving me crazy because I made an error in it? Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? I don't know--I think sl0 is the network card, and if I'm right it's internal. Also, I'll be 80 when I even dare to think about making FreeBSD NAT for my other computer. My Linksys router is the NAT router for all my computers. Tomas Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? -- -Tomas Quintero Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals FreeBSD performing NAT is really really easy. If you do a little research perhaps into PF which I'm currently trying to learn, it's pretty simple to do, compared to what I've seen from IPFW. How do I open a text editor to edit the rc.conf file while I'm not logged in (I don't think so), and while every command has # in front of it? vi wouldn't work, and view and ex don't work either. I also have a copy of the original rc.conf file; how do I dump the data into the current rc.conf file which is driving me crazy because I made an error in it? You could just do: cat rc.conf.backup rc.conf If I'm not mistaken if you have a backup copy of your rc.conf. As several people have said in this chain of emails, sl0 is not actually one of your NICs. I believe it is a serial port or something, but I don't quite remember. If you could, please post the results from 'ifconfig' and perhaps your
Connecting to the Internet
Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! - Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to the Internet
On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? -- -Tomas Quintero ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to the Internet
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Broming plutonium wrote: I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? You say nothing about what version of FreeBSD, nor what you did during installation. plip0, ppp0, nor sl0 are ethernet interfaces, they are rarely used in this day and age of dirt cheap ethernet. You don't say whether or not X is running or whether you are still in a text terminal. Either way, open a command shell and type ifconfig to see what interfaces your kernel sees. Another thing to play with is sysinstall, the same utility which runs when one boots off the CD can be used while the system is running. You might wish to use it to play with and disable plip0, and look for an ethernet interface. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to the Internet
Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Sorry--my DHCP server is a Linksys router which is supposed to assign an internal IP address automatically, whenever a computer asks for it. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. Umm...how do I do that again? Do I just go to /stand/sysinstall, click on Index, and click on Network Interfaces? What do I put down for the host and domain? The host is the computer name, I suppose, but I don't think I assigned my LAN a domain. I accidentally put something for the domain, and now I can't erase it because whenever I leave a textbox my computer automatically refills it with what I wrote earlier. In fact, I can't change any settings because it will refill itself whenever I try to. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. I tried that a minute ago, but it only got me into even deeper trouble. I'm so careless that I forgot to put a quote, and now my computer wouldn't boot properly. It only allows me to log on as a single user, and has # thing instead of $ or computername: How do I open a text editor to edit the rc.conf file while I'm not logged in (I don't think so), and while every command has # in front of it? vi wouldn't work, and view and ex don't work either. I also have a copy of the original rc.conf file; how do I dump the data into the current rc.conf file which is driving me crazy because I made an error in it? Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? I don't know--I think sl0 is the network card, and if I'm right it's internal. Also, I'll be 80 when I even dare to think about making FreeBSD NAT for my other computer. My Linksys router is the NAT router for all my computers. Tomas Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/05, Broming plutonium wrote: Hello everyone...for the first time. I have two computers. I very recently installed FreeBSD on my first computer because the operating system it used to have, Microsoft Windows, was infected by so many viruses that my computer took a million years to open a program. I've only had 2 days of experience with FreeBSD, so I don't know anything about it. How do I connect it to the Internet using Ethernet? My computer seemed to be telling me it had three network interfaces. I'm guessing that the ones called plip0 and ppp0 are all wrong; sl0 is the right one. FreeBSD tries to establish an Internet connection on plip0 every time it boots. How do I change that to sl0? How do I tell it to tell DHCP server to assign IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx USING the sl0 network interface? What do I have to do to establish an Internet connection? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Firstly, by telling the DHCP server to assign a static-IP address to a specific system on the network, what sort of DHCP server are you speaking of. Are you asking about your ISPs DHCP, a Linksys/Dlink/other SOHO DHCP device, or are you attempting to setup your own internal DHCP server such as ISC-DHCP for your LAN. Secondly, the quick and easy way to change around things so that sl0 pulls an IP is to run /stand/sysinstall and reconfigure your Network Interfaces. You could also edit rc.conf manually and set up the sl0 interface that way, to either pull a static or dynamic IP. Is sl0 internal or external? Is the FreeBSD box going to NAT for your second computer? -- -Tomas Quintero - Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router
I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can succesfully ping the router, but when I load up a webbrowser I get a Cannot find webpage error. So, it's confusing that the computer can connect to the router but not through the router to the internet. The output of ifconfig wi0 is: wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:2dff:feb3:a0e%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:02:2d:b3:0a:0e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid 1475 1:1475 stationname FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node channel 6 automode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 Everything is setup fine with DHCP. Wep is disabled on my router right now so the wepmode I think shouldn't matter. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:48:02 -0500 John Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD succesfully on my Gateway M500 laptop. The only problem I have is that my laptop connects to the internet through a wireless router. My wireless card is working fine on the laptop and I can succesfully ping the router, but when I load up a webbrowser I get a Cannot find webpage error. So, it's confusing that the computer can connect to the router but not through the router to the internet. The output of ifconfig wi0 is: wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:2dff:feb3:a0e%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:02:2d:b3:0a:0e media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid 1475 1:1475 stationname FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node channel 6 automode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 Everything is setup fine with DHCP. Wep is disabled on my router right now so the wepmode I think shouldn't matter. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Step 1: Make sure that the file /etc/resolv.conf exists. I don't think dhclient can create the file if it's missing. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems connecting to the internet through a wireless router
I created the /etc/resolv.conf file and now it works. Amazing how simple that was. Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
