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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com 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 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <31F184A0.3963@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4sa3c3$pj7@ns.cs.hku.hk> <4sapto$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) 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 Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |