A few questions
Roeland
I'm new to FreeBSD after I have worked a few months with SuSe/Redhat, but
want to make a Gatway/mail/webserver with this os.
I installed FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE from the iso file, after the installation
went ok I got the following problems with my Network card (Realtek, NE2000
compatible irq 10 i/o 0xff80.):
on startup: "ed0 device timeout"
when I want to send an e-mail to root (sendmail root) Sendmail gives me 3
times the error: "My unqualified Hostname (Server) unknown; sleeping for
retry"
I have configurate my NIC at the instalation (already when I inserted my
installation
disks) with the the following parameters:
irq 10
i/o 0xff80
hostname: server
ip: 192.168.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
Installation says he found the NIC.
Some other questions:
1. I also want to make a custom kernel, but the handbook on www.freebsd.org
didn't help me; some directories don't excist. Can someone gives me some
tips on that.
2. Is there a program such as linuxconf in Linux?
Thanx in advance,
Roeland Graat
Mikhail Kruk
> Hi,
> I'm new to FreeBSD after I have worked a few months with SuSe/Redhat, but
> want to make a Gatway/mail/webserver with this os.
>
> I installed FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE from the iso file, after the installation
> went ok I got the following problems with my Network card (Realtek, NE2000
> compatible irq 10 i/o 0xff80.):
>
> on startup: "ed0 device timeout"
I am not sure about that. Do you have your card connected to anything? If not,
this message is ok, it just means that the card did not communicate with
anybody on the network (again, I am not sure about that)
>
> when I want to send an e-mail to root (sendmail root) Sendmail gives me 3
> times the error: "My unqualified Hostname (Server) unknown; sleeping for
> retry"
you have to set your hostname to something that really exists. obviously
"server" is not a valid hostname.
> I have configurate my NIC at the instalation (already when I inserted my
> installation
> disks) with the the following parameters:
> irq 10
> i/o 0xff80
> hostname: server
> ip: 192.168.0.1
> subnet: 255.255.255.0
> Installation says he found the NIC.
>
> Some other questions:
> 1. I also want to make a custom kernel, but the handbook on www.freebsd.org
> didn't help me; some directories don't excist. Can someone gives me some
> tips on that.
what directories? you probably did not install the kernel source. run
/stand/sysinstall go to
configure, distributions, source and select sys (which is kernel source).
The directory /usr/sys/ will be created and GENERIC kernel config file will be
placed somewhere around /usr/sys/i386/conf
> 2. Is there a program such as linuxconf in Linux?
no, there is not. But it is usually considered that recompiling kernel is much
easier under FreeBSD then with linuxconf.
You just look through the GENERIC config file and throw away all line that do
not apply to your machine and then look at LINT and select devices that you
need and which are not mentioned in GENERIC (if you have a generic machine you
most probably will not have to deal with LINT at all)