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From: cntrline@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Centerline Computers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: More New-loser questions :(
Date: 16 Aug 1993 06:59:14 GMT
Organization: Centerline Computers, Corvallis, Oregon
Lines: 72
Message-ID: <24nb82$pd8@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: csos.orst.edu
Summary: NetBSD 0.8 kernel building problems
Keywords: loser, help, dos-geek



rehi all!

Well, I'm back, with yet more questions from the new-loser (er, new-user)
category.  Here's the scoup:

I've got a GVC Ethernet Card (NE2000 compatible), and I'm trying to connect
it to a dos machine with NCSA Telnet (for starters)...

Upon booting up I get:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"ne0 at 0x300 irq 9 on isa
  ethernet address 00:c0:a8:00:3d:05Automatic reboot in progress...
/dev/rwd0a: 1360 files, 18617 used, 18790 free (102 frags, 2236 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation)
/dev/rwd0e: 15325 files, 399860 used 113606 free (9222 frags, 13048 blocks, 1.8% fragmentation)
starting network
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
localhost: bad value
localhost: bad value
starting system logger, time daemon.
building databases...
	syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address
Aug 15 23:29:41 timed[47]: bind: Can't assign requested address
preserving editor files
clearing /tmp
standard daemons: update crond.
starting network daemons: routedbind: Can't assign requested address
  printer portmap rwalld sendmailCannot read frozen config file
  inetd.
starting local daemons:.
Sun Aug 15 blah blah blah..."
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Okey dokey... here's the questions:

1) How do you remove fragmentation? (lame eh?)  I guess Norton Speed Disk wouldn't work eh? <g>

2) What's the problem with ifconfig showing no such interface?

3) localhost: bad value? twice?

4) bind: can't assign requested address (twice)

5) Most perplexing: *Cannot read frozen config file* -- how do I thaw it out? ;-)

also, I decided to recompile the kernel, and see if that'd warm up the frigid
config file... but this is all I get:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
cd /sys/i386/conf
config AGAPE   
../../compile/AGAPE: No such file or directory
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
AGAPE is the system name, and the name of the file I copied the GENERICISA 
file to... (but it does the same thing if I try to compile the GENERICISA 
file as well...)

I'm going to switch to 0.9 on the 23rd for sure, but I'd like to know what
the problems are so I don't keep banging my head up against a wall :-|

Thanks again!
  Eric




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