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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!solace!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!not-for-mail From: bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bo Najdrovsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 3c507 weirdness Date: 6 Mar 1996 17:08:12 GMT Organization: Oklahoma City Unix Users Group Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4hkgps$iel@norm.uoknor.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: okcforum.osrhe.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] I installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a system at work (sorry, don't have the 2.1 cdrom yet) and as usual, the install went much smoother than any Linux I've ever tried. Anyway, I went and compiled a new kernel which only had the necessary drivers, including the one for the 3COM 507 ethernet card in the computer. When the system comes up now, it configures the card just fine, but if I add the appropriate entries into the /etc/sysconfig (ie0 inet <ipnumber> netmask 0x<netmask>) the system completely locks up. What's odd is that if I don't do it in the sysconfig file, but rather just manually do ifconfig from the command line after the system has come up, it configures the interface just fine, and I can ping other hosts on the network. Anyone have any suggestions as to what could be done to fix this oddity? thanks... -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bo Najdrovsky // AmigaOS 3.1/Mac Sys7.1/BSD 4.4 - Courtesy of my A3000 bn@gnu.ai.mit.edu \X/ => join the EGS list: listproc@okcforum.osrhe.edu <= bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu "Who are you, who's so wise in the ways of science?"