On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Kevin McCarthy wrote:

> Is this also the proper way of adding a network device.  My ethernet card is
> on De0.  When I do ifconfig I get the following
> "ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS De0: Device not configured"

Try "ifconfig de0 _ipaddr_"
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Case is significant!

> I checked /dev and I don't have an entry for 'De0'.  I tried to MAKDEV De0,
> but apparently I don't have the MAKDVE program.  I did try this as root.

Below should be more like "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV tty2". You get an extra
"zero" for free--"MAKEDEV tty02" makes tty002--go figure, but since
1.4 or 1.4.1, tty2=tty02 is made by default anyway.

You can't make a special device for "de0" at all. Rather, the driver
has to autoconfigure at boot time. If "dmesg | grep ^de0" gives you a
couple of lines, then "ifconfig de0 ..." is the right command.

> Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> > On 24-Dec-99 Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> > > We set-up a symlink from /dev/com2 to /dev/modem.
> >
> > Then later in your ppp.options file you say:
> >
> > >        /dev/tty00
> >
> > Your problem is simple.. you have a modem on com2 (I assume) and you are
> > talking to it on com0 (/dev/tty00)..  The right way to fix this is..
> >
> > cd /dev
> > MAKDEV tty02
> > and change ppp.options to say tty02   ;)