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From: venkates@frith.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: help needed to get ethernet up
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.192723.18469@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 92 19:27:23 GMT
Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing
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Hi
foloowing earlier suggestions of disabling svga interrupt  and remapping 
ethernet interrupt to irq 9, I managed to get the system to recognise
the presence (we0 at irq 9) of the board, however I am unable to get out
of system on to the network inspite of trying ifconfig with various options.
ping of an extrnal machine shows 100% packet loss, another machine (physically
on the same cable, a sun4) does not "see" any packets from the bsd386 machine (
using etherfind and netstat).  So I beleive that no packets are being sent out
physically by the bsd machine even though it cliams to be doing it.
I have tried

ifconfig we0 inet `hostname` netmask 0xfff80000 broadcast 35.8.0.0 -trailers up

and as variation , notrailers, brodcast to 255.255. etc. etc.

Has any one ever got this type of problem. Any reply (email preffered) will be
highly appreciated.
Thank you
Venkatesh Gopinath
Michigan State U