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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: ronf1@ix.netcom.com (Ron Feigen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HELP!!! Critical FTP Network Install Problem Date: 24 Aug 1995 01:59:23 GMT Organization: 9,999 Maniacs Lines: 38 Message-ID: <41gmdr$cqc@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-pa6-25.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 HELP. I am helping out a Prof at ASU and we need to get this system up ASAP as classes started Monday. ASU bought a Dell Optipex 590 with 32meg of RAM, 514meg EIDE H/D, ATAPI CD, and a thin net (BNC) network adapter (I started with a 3com 3c509b and just tried an Intel Etherexpress (BNC/AUI combo). The 3com card required a bit of coaxing during boot to get it to respond when probed. I need to disable other devices at 0x300. The intel card seems a bit better. However it did switch itself from having mapped memory to no mapped memory during a reboot. But when configured as FreeeBSD expects (0x300, irq 10, mapped mem @ d000) it is recognized no problem. BTW how much memory should be mapped at d000 I had a choice of 16K or 32K (or no mapped memory)? The problem is that after I selected FTP for my media and fill out the net config info I get a message about not being able to resolve the hostname and asked to check my gateway/nameserver info. We installed a DOS based TCP/IP stack and ran netscape with the same setup H/W so I know the H/W is good. I asked two sys admins to double check my configuration info and it checked out. So what could be my problem? Is there a problem with Dell Optiplex chipsets? Is there a prefered FreeBSD network card? Any info will be greatly appreciated, I am starting to PANIC. Thanks in advance, Ron Feigen ronf1@ix.netcom.com ron_feigen@email.mot.com