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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "No route to host" error??? Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:35:26 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32ABB32E.C1D@OntheNet.com.au> References: <58g27f$eiq@neonlights.uoregon.edu> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: dsmith@cs.uoregon.edu dsmith@cs.uoregon.edu wrote: > > I just installed FreeBSD yesterday for my first time, so I am very > new to it. Everything went okay (except that my PS/2 mouse doesn't > work. Any ideas) installing it over the network (ethernet), but now You need to enable the PS/2 bus mouse using the 'psm0' device. Take a look in the LINT (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf) file for details! > when I try to telnet or FTP anywhere that is not on my network (U of > Oregon), it gives me a "no route to host" error. Why would this be? > In other words, I can telnet to "gladstone.uoregon.edu", or I can FTP > to "ftp.uoregon.edu," but I can't FTP to "ftp.freebsd.org." I don't > understand why this would be since I was able to install off of that > server originally. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks a lot Looks like a missing default route to your "gateway" router. Do a 'netstat -r' and if you don't have a default route then edit your "/etc/sysconfig" file, pointing to a router on your LAN and reboot! > for any information! > > --- > Douglas A. Smith > dsmith@cs.uoregon.edu