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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Networking problems... No buffer space for sendto. Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:00:56 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4fqg48$ai2@helena.MT.net> References: <gnn.824074349@wrs.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <gnn.824074349@wrs.com>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@wrs.com> wrote: >Hi Folks, > > I've just installed FreeBSD 2.1 on my WinBook (486DX/33 laptop > with 16M/340M) and I'm having some problems with the networking. I > can bring up the network and mount NFS volumes over it. BTW The > network card is a 3COM 3C589C Combo PCMCIA card. After a while the > network connection hangs/goes away. I can't ping the machine from > outside, and when I try to ping to the outside from the console I > get a "sendto: no buffer space" error. Anyone else seen this? This message was also posted to the FreeBSD mailing lists, where I answered it there. Basically, it's a 'feature' of the 3C589 card which I don't understand. The problem went away when he modified the 'baud rate' of the card in it's NVRAM using the setup program under DOS. Why this fixed the problem I don't know, but I don't argue with success. :) Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth