All this is typed out so please excuse typos. This is after manually assigning inet and netmask. $ ifconfig sis0 sis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 lladdr 00:fe:e1:ba:d0:a7 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier inet6 fe80::2fe::e1ff::feba::d0a7%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.2.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 Also listed by ifconfig are lo0 and enc0 $ dmesg | grep 'sis0' sis0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "SiS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x82: irq 3, address 07:29:02:50:80:00 ukphy0 at sis0 phy 0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 5: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032