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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!henare.q.com!henry From: henry mensch <henry@queernet.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: 3com 3c509 card support problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: <netnewsD31vx0.AxI@netcom.com> X-Xxmessage-Id: <AB4DCAFF8E01F00D@henare.q.com> X-Xxdate: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 05:56:15 GMT Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: queer systems X-Newsreader: Nuntius 1.3b30_68K References: <SEOYM.95Jan22175004@snow.snu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:12:35 GMT Lines: 26 Seo, seoym@snow.snu.ac.kr writes: >I recently installed FreeBSD-2.0. >When FreeBSD boots up, the kernel finds my 3com card correctly(as IRQ 10). i'm in a similar spot; the kernel finds my card correctly: ep0 at 0x200-0x20f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/bnc[*AUI*] address 00:60:8c:c0:cc:c1 i can ping the freebsd host from itself just fine. ping to other hosts on the ethernet (two others hosts connected with a milan 8-port hub) reports no result (no packets are ever returned). the other hosts can see each other and the internet (the ethernet is connected to the internet via a ppp connection; this setup has worked for months and has not changed lately). i know the ethernet card is working because the arp cache is getting entries. i can ping this host from across the internet an watch it get traffic over the transceiver, but it doesn't seem to send bits back. a default route is installed and known to work from the other hosts on that network. any clues? # henry mensch / <henry@queernet.org> / pob 14592; sf, ca 94114-0592; usa # "if people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent # would ever get done." -- ludwig wittgenstein # NBCS: B3/4 w+ f+ g(-) k+ s+ m p(+)