On 1/10/09, William Gordon Rutherdale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I have just installed FreeBSD on a machine and am having trouble getting > basic ethernet connectivity working. > > I know that the interface works because it functioned fine with the old > virus software called 'Vista' on that connection. > > The ifconfig utility tells me that the machine recognises something > called fwe0 with an ethernet address of 02:1e:8c:9a:3b:96. However > dmesg tells me this is a 'Fake Ethernet' address. > > I used ifconfig (as root) to set the ip address and netmask for fwe0, > but am unable to ping another machine on the network. I have not tried > installing FreeBSD before but have installed other operating systems in > the past including various versions of Linux. > > Is it possible that FreeBSD is not recognising the ethernet device > properly at boot time, and giving it the wrong driver? Or is there a > simpler step I missed? > > What steps can I take to get this interface working? > > -Will > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" >
fwe is ethernet emulation driver for firewire. post output of pciconf -lv. -- Paul _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
