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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.0 (and latest SNAP) w/3c509 Date: 10 May 1995 17:44:41 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3oqu29$644@overload.lbl.gov> References: <3oedbl$76o@nntp4.mindspring.com> <kargl-0805951040280001@spleen.apl.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <kargl-0805951040280001@spleen.apl.washington.edu>, Steven G. Kargl <kargl@apl.washington.edu> wrote: >In article <3oedbl$76o@nntp4.mindspring.com>, >rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) wrote: > >> I'm sure I saw reference to this before, but can't find the article >> now. When trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 (and latest SNAP) on a >> machine with a 3c509, I can't seem to get the card configured correctly. >> It's at 0x300/irq10, and the automatic ifconfig proceeds fine, but >> the card won't send or receive packets. The cable (UTP) is known good, >> it worked fine under Linux, etc. >> >> Is there a fix for this? >> >> -- Robert > >Did you specify the link2 flag for ifconfig? This is needed for the UTP >connection. In /etc/hostname.ep0, you should have > >xxx.xxx.ip.addr hostname 0xffffff00 link2 > >where xxx.xxx.ip.addr is th IP address for your machine, hostname is >your machine's name, then the netmask, and finally link2 > I had same problem for installing FreeBSD 2.0-950322-SNAP. I cannot use either FTP or NFS method to install FreeBSD. From FTP method, I got these errors: ... So, I tried to install version 2.0-950412-SNAP, and it hangs and won't do any thing when using internal IDE, or says no MBR when using external SCSI(via NCR). Therefore, I looked at newgroups and saw this discussion, then I went to shell to do ifconfig on ep0 manually and every thing works. The question is what is the link2 flag doing? BTW, I am using AUI, but not UTP. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |