netbsd-help: Re: Newbe needs help, NIC card. Solved, moving on.

Subject: Re: Newbe needs help, NIC card. Solved, moving on.
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Mac McCaskie <mccaskie@kc.rr.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/05/2003 19:49:35

Manuel and Alan, et al
Ok, That issue got solved, thanks for the pointers! The output follows 
below ...
After I got it on the net, I needed to add a user so I could telnet and 
ftp in. Boy, what a chore that was. I could add a user, but some 
stupid un-usable password kept getting set.
After much searching I ran vipw and erased the '*' that was set (where 
did that come from?). I tried to figure out how to set it with useradd 
and usermod, but I couldn't guess how to get the encrypted password ( ! 
? ). But for now that is done. What did I miss? there has to be a 
better way to add a user!
Jeesh, this is much different than Novell or (that other one). Oh well, 
since I want to run with the big dogs I guess I have to know the secret 
handshake!
Well, I ramble on ... now that I can telnet in from (that other one) I 
can work getting it to ping google.com (ping 192.168.0.1 works!), but 
that is probably a name service or something (right?). And then on to 
APACHE which is the real goal.
Thanks for the help
-mac
<output>
$ ifconfig -a
tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 address: 00:c0:f0:59:e6:74
 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
 status: active
 inet 192.168.0.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 inet6 fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe59:e674%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33220
 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
strip0: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip1: flags=0<> mtu 1100
$ ifconfig -m tlp0
tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 address: 00:c0:f0:59:e6:74
 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
 status: active
 supported Ethernet media:
 media none
 media 10baseT
 media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
 media 100baseTX
 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
 media autoselect
 inet 192.168.0.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 inet6 fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe59:e674%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
$