[haiku-development] Re: RTL8101/8102 FreeBSD Driver

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> Datum: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:20:42 +0200
> Von: "Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>
> An: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: [haiku-development] Re: RTL8101/8102 FreeBSD Driver

> Hi Graham
> 
> > Thanks for that Michael.  I tried the line above, and while it now  
> > doesn't crash, and seems to be able to send and receive packets  
> > (ifconfig reports a small number sent and received) and while it also  
> 
> Nice to hear, that looks promising at least.
> 
> > shows up in the Network Prefs, I can't get ping to work.  If I try to  
> > ping the ip of another machine on my lan (or google.com for that  
> > matter), ping gets a return value of -1 and states:
> > ping: sendto: No route to host.
> 
> I take it you set the connection up manually right now? Using ifconfig 
> directly? The thing is, that (at least from my experience) Haiku is a 
> bit fragile when it comes to manual configuration right now.
> 
> The "no route to host" probably means that there is no route configured 
> on which to reach your network addresses and no default route either. 
> You can check that using the "route" command, where it probably doesn't 
> list anything matching your network subnet. You could try adding a 
> route manually (again using the "route" command) that "connects" the 
> interface with the target network. Using "route --help" you should get 
> an example of how it should work, something like "route add /dev/net/<
> drivername>/<devicenumber> default gw <gateway/router ip>" should work, 
> as then all traffic should be routed through that gateway (you should 
> get a 0.0.0.0 mapping when running "route" again).
> 
> If that doesn't work, the safest bet is to just use automatic 
> configuration. Others would know where exactly the network config is 
> stored, so that you can just remove it to start over. You could just 
> try a clean image with your driver added to check if automatic config 
> works.

Using the Preferences->Network should work as well. ;-)

Best regards,
-Stephan

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