Network card signal 11

[k9_engineer]

I, too am newbie to BSD. Installed ok but network card: nvidia mcp not working. When I try to configure with kde it crashes and gets signal 11 error. When I do the FAQ for command line configuration (/stand/sysinstall) I get command not found. Any help to get connection running. I have cable modem and never had trouble with that getting configured before. Would like to explore BSD but kinda hard without internet. Thanks
Doug

[TerryP]

Does this help?

http://www.pcbsd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3301

I'm only getting into networking stuff now (and having to configure slackware linux for mine)

So I'm not much help myself at the moement. (Passes to the forum professionals)

[Rocket Rog]

I had the same experience configuring my network card. I solved it using the Network Settings dialog box. I worked backwards...

• Start, Settings, Internet and Network, Network Settings
  Expanded the dialog box so I could find the Administrator Mode button
  Entered Administrator Mode

My nic was shown but as disabled. Ignore that...

• Select Domain Name System tab
  Change host name, click Apply
  Change domain name, click Apply
  Add name server, click Apply
  Delete bogus name server, click Apply

At this point, I clicked OK and quit the Network Settings dialog box, just to force a save. Now do more...

• Start, Settings, Internet and Network, Network Settings
  Expanded the dialog box so I could find the Administrator Mode button
  Entered Administrator Mode
  Select Domain Name System tab. Changes presisted, good.
  Select Routes tab.
  Add gateway address, click Apply

At this point, I clicked OK and quit the Network Settings dialog box, just to force a save. Now do more...

• Start, Settings, Internet and Network, Network Settings
  Expanded the dialog box so I could find the Administrator Mode button
  Entered Administrator Mode
  Click Configure Interface
  Complete the dialog box, click Apply

I quit the dialog and entered again. Enter Administrator Mode
All changes persisted, good.
Click enable interface, and up it came, without error.

In my case I also had to edit /etc/rc.conf to enter my subnet mask. The mask was not on the list provided in the dialog box.

BTW, I had the same experience searching for /stand/whatever. I did find sysinstall, which loads a text-mode menu and allows a post-install configuration. However that did not enable the NIC.

My guess is that FreeBSD is defaulting to DHCP on install. No provision made for static IPs.

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[dracheflieger]

My guess is that FreeBSD is defaulting to DHCP on install. No provision made for static IPs.

I too had to work backwards like you. It is setup to default to DHCP and I'm sure that most home destop users would be set that way (or at least over 95% of our users are set that way).

I still can't ping myself (127.0.0.1) and it complained about creating a new alias when I put in our company's DNS servers. I can surf just find but local processes wont start at boot(apachectl, mysql, etc)

If I don't have it fixed in the next couple of days I'll bleat out for help but it's always better to learn through experimentation (up to the pint you kill you system anyway LOL)