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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl!bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl!rooij From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: More New-loser questions :( Message-ID: <1993Aug16.091102.12088@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Keywords: loser, help, dos-geek Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <24nb82$pd8@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:11:02 GMT Lines: 84 cntrline@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Centerline Computers) writes: >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> You don't (usually). Ufs keeps itsself unfragmented as much as possible. Whenever fragmentation gets to big, you can renewfs the disk and restioe a backu >2) What's the problem with ifconfig showing no such interface? Try to looik at /etc/netstart. You have to make a line for th ne0 interface. I think you still have the we0 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? ;-) RTFM (sendmail. Bsically you have a configfile, sendmail.cf, and you make a sendmail.fc. I think they are found in /etc >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...) Did you run the command as root? (config I mean) >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 >-- >| Centerline Computers | Be sure to request our CD TITLES | >| 1111 NW Circle Blvd | LIST, Loaded with *HUGE* savings | >| Corvallis, OR 97330 | on hundreds of items!! | >| (503) 753-9113 | cntrline@kira.csos.orst.edu | -Guido