Newb needs help setting up Internet.

lancelott · 06-19-2004, 12:13 AM

My NIC wasn't autodetected because I had to use the driver port. It's the onboard NIC of the Nvidia Nforce2 chipset. I installed the nvnet driver and loaded it but how do I set it up so I can access sites? I'm not familiar with using ifconfig/etc.

My DSL gateway is at 192.168.0.1 and this computer 192.168.0.2 if that means anything...

Thanks in advance.

chort · 06-19-2004, 01:34 AM

Which BSD are you using? You don't say anywhere in your post and it's not in your visible profile.

Have you looked at the sticky at the top of this forum? It has links to the documentation for the 3 major BSDs (Free, Net, and Open) all of which contain information on setting up networking to connect to the Internet.

Atrocity · 06-21-2004, 07:22 AM

if your using freebsd then just use sysinstall and then choose manually set up and put in your info and it should work after a restart, I found that using dhcp to configure it sometimes doesnt work

lancelott · 06-21-2004, 11:38 PM

Hmm. I used DHCP and it worked until I restarted.

I'll try getting the info from DHCP then putting it in manually I suppose and post if it doesn't work.

lancelott · 06-21-2004, 11:50 PM

It still requires me to re-setup in /stand/sysinstall every time I reboot until I can access anything...

frob23 · 06-22-2004, 12:54 AM

If DHCP works for you... then you need to setup dhcp in /etc/rc.conf

Add the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
--
ifconfig_DEVICENAME="DHCP"
dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
dhcp_flags=""
--

Replace DEVICENAME with the name and number of the device... like rl0 or xl1... you get the idea. I don't know what the name is for your card or I would have included it for you.

And it should come up on the reboot.

lancelott · 06-22-2004, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by frob23
If DHCP works for you... then you need to setup dhcp in /etc/rc.conf

Add the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
--
ifconfig_DEVICENAME="DHCP"
dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
dhcp_flags=""
--

Replace DEVICENAME with the name and number of the device... like rl0 or xl1... you get the idea. I don't know what the name is for your card or I would have included it for you.

And it should come up on the reboot.

Thanks! That worked like a charm.