Re: no internet connection

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 04/15/04

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To: Marian Hettwer <Mh@kernel32.de>

    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 

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