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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NE2000 problem
Date: 14 Jul 1996 12:41:28 GMT
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ctkwan@cs.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}) wrote:
> I am a newbie to FreeBSD though I have been using and maintaining Linux
> systems for more than a year. I tried to installed FreeBSD 2.1 by following
> the instructions that come with the CD-ROM. Everything seems fine except
> that booting stops at the call to ifconfig. The system I used has an NE2000
> and the IRQ is set to 5. I think this is the correct setting since I got
> "ed1 device time out" if I set the IRQ to other values. It seems that
> the board is sorta working because I can still access other machines on the
> local network if I press ^C to stop the ifconfig and let the booting
> continue. (I need to send a ^C to sendmail also, BTW)
. make all IP addresses in /etc/sysconfig numeric
. kill the bogus 224.0.0.0 route in /etc/sysconfig
. make sure your nameserver works correctly (that's probably why
sendmail hangs) and /etc/resolv.conf reflects the reality
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)