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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to Network FreeBSD ? Date: 24 Sep 1993 15:03:09 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <27v27d$53l@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CDszqr.14u@newsserver.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CDszqr.14u@newsserver.technet.sg>, Hisao Mori <mori@solomon.technet.sg> wrote: >I have successfully installed FreeBSD with binary distribution. .. >I got the following in the startup > ... > npx0 on isa > npx0: Errors reported via Exception 16. > >What is the last line? Anything to do with my ethernet card ? Nope, that is an informational message that informs the user how the FP errors are being handled. The message will probably change in a newer version of FreeBSD due to the amount of folks who think it's an error due to the wording. >I tried to ping myself > ping 192.9.200.1 >and I got > ping 192.9.200.1 > ping: sendto: No route to host > ping: wrote 192.9.200.1 64 chars, ret=-1 Have you checked your setup in /etc/netstart? You need to tell the system where you're located at, and enable the network card. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me