Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi Malte, > > Malte Dreschert wrote: > >> Hello, >> after experimenting a bit with Linux I wanted to try something >> different and >> installed FreeBSD. > > good idea :) > >> The installation went fine except for the network. I have a normal >> network >> card and a netgear dsl router, which is connected to the internet. I >> could >> configure the network using dhcp but I have no connection to the >> internet. >> Can someone point me in the right direction where to search for the >> solution? > > hm... I believe some more information are needed. > Please provide us with the following output: > > ifconfig -a > uname -a > dmesg > > I have no clue which Network Card you are using, and therefor which > network card is configured for dhcp. I would guess that FreeBSD > doesnīt know your NIC. So letīs fix this ;) Actually, I think it's most likely because he needs PPPoE. This might help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 03:58:24 UTC
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