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From: bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem with NE2100
Date: 1 Sep 1994 23:28:04 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <oiNEA7C00Uh_47ynwq@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Yungming Hsu  <yh29+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>I'm experiencing problems getting my FreeBSD setup, a 486/66 system with
>a NE2100 compatible network card, on the network. The kernel correctly
>recognizes the network card on device is0, and the network card is
>correctly ifconfiged to the proper IP address and net-mask but when the
>netstart script gets down to the line "ifconfig lo0 inet localhost" it
>seems to freeze up. ...

This is not a bug.  You need to create a working /etc/resolv.conf.  The
delays you are seeing are nameserver timeouts.

--
Ben Jackson