installed but no network

[John Marino]

On 4/4/2014 13:24, Ludo Beckers wrote:
> <We are getting back into hand-holding territory here
> 
> I know, sorry about that :-/
> 
> I found nfe0 is correct here, so I adapted the rc.conf accordingly.
> 
> resolv.conf reads: search be

Like Pierre and I mentioned, you need a "nameserver" line.
Do you know your network?  typically it starts with 192.168.0,
192.168.1, 10.0.0, etc, and the nameserver is the ".1" address.

> 
> I hope I have the right documentation here to study?
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/Configuration/#index8h2

seems pretty reasonable, that should be a good start.
John


> 
> 
> Ludo
> www.potingue.be <http://www.potingue.be>
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:09 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st
> <mailto:dragonflybsd at marino.st>> wrote:
> 
>     We are getting back into hand-holding territory here, this must be
>     mentioned in "setting up networking" tutorials.
> 
>     Your issue may be the value in /etc/resolv.conf
> 
>     As a example, mine looks like this:
>     # cat /etc/resolv.conf
>     nameserver 192.168.0.1
> 
>     You might want to use "ipconfig" to verify that your network card is
>     "em0", I didn't how how Sascha knew that.
> 
>     John
> 
> 
>     On 4/4/2014 13:00, Ludo Beckers wrote:
>     > I added it to the end of rc.conf (btw emZERO, correct?) and then did
>     > ping avalon.dragonflybsd.org <http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org>
>     <http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org>
>     > and got Host name lookup failure.
>     >
>     > Ludo
>     > www.potingue.be <http://www.potingue.be> <http://www.potingue.be>
>     >
>     >
>     > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de
>     <mailto:saw at online.de>
>     > <mailto:saw at online.de <mailto:saw at online.de>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:42:00 +0200, Ludo Beckers
>     <lazylew at gmail.com <mailto:lazylew at gmail.com>
>     >     <mailto:lazylew at gmail.com <mailto:lazylew at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         It clearly shows I hadn't a clue what I was doing when
>     trying to
>     >         set up the
>     >         network.
>     >         Is there something I should retry with the CD first, or
>     >         otherwise can
>     >         someone send me the link for the right documentation (Network
>     >         for Dummies?)
>     >         please?
>     >
>     >
>     >     Try putting ifconfig_em0="DHCP" into /etc/rc.conf (assuming you
>     >     configured an Intel card in the guest)
>     >
>     >
> 
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