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From: tl@neptun.cmr.no (Tom Lislegaard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD-2.0 - How to configure 3c509 ?
Date: 29 Nov 1994 09:47:38 GMT
Organization: Christian Michelsen Research a/s
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3betbq$4v9@due.uninett.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: neptun.cmr.no

I'm trying to install 2.0R, but can't get the network interface up.
It's a 3c509 connected to aui, and the card is recognized by the kernel.

Seems to me that I can't make it use the AUI port, are there any
options to ifconfig to force aui?

Here's what i've tried 
 # ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 up
 # ifconfig ep0 inet 129.177.31.175 netmask 0xffffff00 up

Then ifconfig reports interfaces up & running, but from the transceiver
LEDs I can see that nothing is ever transmitted. The hardware involved
should be working - at least I had it working with dos until right now
when I repartitioned the disk for FreeBSD.

I'm grateful for any advice.

-tom
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Tom Lislegaard,  System Manager,  Chr. Michelsen Research a/s, Bergen, Norway