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Hello ,

I m using a Reliance Broadband connection .. I want 2 connect my FreeBSD machine to the internet .The process of connecting to internet is simple ..

Go to reliancebroadnet.co.in
They will ask for username and password

and voila .. internet is up

Thats the story in my windows and Ubuntu machines ..

Can anybody tell me what to do to setup my internet in my FreeBSD machine .. I m using freebsd 7 .0 .. and i dont have x driver installed .. I want to go to the internet to update my ports and have my xdriver installed ...

I tried PPP .. but failed miserably .. and i tried reading handbook .. But that too didnt help me ..

Well for ur reference i m putting my netstat -rn results

Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
0.0.0.0/8 link#1 UC 0 0 fwe0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 58 lo0

Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
::/96 ::1 UGRS lo0
::1 ::1 UHL lo0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 ::1 UGRS lo0
fe80::/10 ::1 UGRS lo0
fe80::%fwe0/64 link#1 UC fwe0
fe80::24:1bff:fe59:a900%fwe0 02:24:1b:59:a9:00 UHL lo0
fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 U lo0
fe80::1%lo0 link#3 UHL lo0
ff01:1::/32 link#1 UC fwe0
ff01:3::/32 ::1 UC lo0
ff02::/16 ::1 UGRS lo0
ff02::%fwe0/32 link#1 UC fwe0
ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC lo0


And this is my ifconfig -a results

fwe0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MU LTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:24:1b:59:a9:00
inet6 fe80::24:1bff:fe59:a900%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
ch 1 dma 0
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
lladdr 0.24.1b.0.9d.59.a9.0.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

Please Help

Welcome to forum!

You need a driver for connection. How do you connect to internet - using usb modem, ethernet, wireless, wifimax direct connection? Is this a metro ethernet connection? Do you know the name of driver under Linux? If so we can help to find out driver under FreeBSD.

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Yep .. I use an AdSL modem given by the provider .it is Zte zxdsl 831 2 . and it is wired to my ethernet port In my ubuntu the driver is tg3.. I donno what it means ..Thnx 4 the quick reply

tg3 is Ethernet card driver and not for your modem. All you have to do is run sysinstall command and select postinstall ethernet and set it to dhcp. Plug router into ethrnet and reboot system. You should be online. No driver is required for ADSL ethernet router cum modem.

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