Re: 3com nic

[Marty Landman <MLandman face2interface com>]

At 03:01 PM 1/2/2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> You didn't say what kind of 3Com NIC you have.

As if I knew. :)

> Have you verified that there's a driver installed?

I rebooted and this time went through hardware config. Then rebooted again 
and it didn't prompt me for hardware adds after checking.

>   As the root user:
>
>         ifconfig -a
>
> You should see something like

[snip]

Nope, instead I get

lo      Link encap:Local Loopback
etc...

> verify you have a line in /etc/modules.conf that looks like:

I get alias eth0 3c509

> As the root user, give us the output of the following commands:
>
>         lspci | grep thernet

Nada.. the lspci cmd outputs five lines including bridges for Host and ISA, 
IDE interface, USB & VGA controllers. It is possible that my 3com is on an 
ISA slot, but perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself here.

>         cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0

as shown above Rick

>         lsmod

Heh, can you provide a url for how I can write to a floppy? Else it's lots 
of typing, anything in particular you're looking for?

>         cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

device=eth0
onboot=yes
bootproto=static
ipaddr=19.18.0.160
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1

This above looks about right for what I entered on the preceding boot when 
installing the nic. Just to give a basic rundown of my network, have 5 
boxes networked together with a netgear switch. And BTW, the light for this 
box on the switch ain't lit; maybe I should've mentioned that earlier? 
:)  Also my XP workstation is the one with the dial up connection and its 
ip is 192.168.0.1, and my FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE box is the lan's DNS server 
and its ip addr is 192.168.0.7... which I did enter during network setup 
just before but it doesn't seem to reflect on the ifcfg-eth0 file above.


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