Hi folks,
Super newbie here -- I've been using Ubuntu on desktop on and off for quite some time, and I generally know my way around a *nix terminal, but I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.4 (8 couldn't mount the disk and 9 had a kernel panic when decompressing archives) on an old PII I had lying around, thinking I could jimmy it into a functional webserver.
I've been managing OK so far (apart from a lot of broken dependencies when running pkg_add and seemingly no easy to way to correct them, and the fact that my mouse and keyboard for some reason won't respond in Gnome), but I'm having an irritating issue: every time I reboot the machine I have to run sudo dhclient rl0 to get an IP address from my router on ethernet. Am I missing something? Once I actually get this thing working to a satisfactory degree, I was going to try finding an ndis-friendly 802.11n card and switching over to wireless so that my wife is a little less bothered by my having a server in the closet, but I need it to at least be able to grab an IP address so I can ssh in afterwards without having to walk over to the closet.
Even after I get an IP address, I don't seem to be able to get anything on port 80 (apache tells me that it can't reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name when it starts, if that helps), but that might just be an issue with open ports.
Thanks for any advice!
Super newbie here -- I've been using Ubuntu on desktop on and off for quite some time, and I generally know my way around a *nix terminal, but I've recently installed FreeBSD 7.4 (8 couldn't mount the disk and 9 had a kernel panic when decompressing archives) on an old PII I had lying around, thinking I could jimmy it into a functional webserver.
I've been managing OK so far (apart from a lot of broken dependencies when running pkg_add and seemingly no easy to way to correct them, and the fact that my mouse and keyboard for some reason won't respond in Gnome), but I'm having an irritating issue: every time I reboot the machine I have to run sudo dhclient rl0 to get an IP address from my router on ethernet. Am I missing something? Once I actually get this thing working to a satisfactory degree, I was going to try finding an ndis-friendly 802.11n card and switching over to wireless so that my wife is a little less bothered by my having a server in the closet, but I need it to at least be able to grab an IP address so I can ssh in afterwards without having to walk over to the closet.
Even after I get an IP address, I don't seem to be able to get anything on port 80 (apache tells me that it can't reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name when it starts, if that helps), but that might just be an issue with open ports.
Thanks for any advice!