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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NE2000 problem
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 18:15:12 -0700
Organization: Erols Internet Services
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J Wunsch wrote:
>
> 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
One more item: if you put "hosts" above "bind" in your /etc/host.conf
file, your system should be able to find other machines in your subnet,
as listed in /etc/hosts, without a nameserver. However, sendmail will
need some reconfiguration, or else you'll need to use absolute IP
addresses, if you plan to send e-mail from station to station.
--
Ken
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