On Wednesday 16 August 2006 16:27, Nick Rout wrote: > First thing to do is see if your network card is recognised and a driver > loaded. Try ifconfig at the command line and see what network devices it > sees. If your device has been recognised there will probably be a device > there that has no IP address allocated.
tried that command and I dont think it recognises the card. It did come up with some stuff, but as I am on another computer (fortunately now beside the other one and yay I am typing this opn my suse based machine. Not the XP one inside :-) If you really need me to type all the stuff here I can, but lets understand the globe icon first maybe. > > Another way of seeing this is that on my install there is a little > network connection icon in the task bar (next to the clock, bottom right > of the desktop, looks like a globe or something). Click on it and enter > the root password and see what it says there. > yes its there and lets me type in root password etc and takes me to a window that has what looks like yellow coloured network cards. ones says PLIP network inteface one says plog ........ I think one says pbsync ....... again I think thats what it says but I have forgotten where I found the setting for diplay as with this 14 inch monitor I can read it properly anyway besides that under the link column all three have the word (Error) and no IP Adresses defined or any other details. > The loading of kernel modules for different cards is similar in concept > to linux, but different in the details of the commands to run. > > kldload loads a kernel module, eg > > kldload if_ath loads my atheros wireless card's driver. At that point > > > The automatic loading of modules is handled by uncommenting entries in > /boot/defaults/loader.conf. For example to get my atheros device to load > at boot up I uncommented the line > > if_ath_load="NO" to > > if_ath_load="YES" > > Actual network configuration is carried out in /etc/rc.conf > > Anyway, lets get the device recognised first... Yup sounds like a good plan. regards Reg
