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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!portc02.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.duq.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!tecsun1.tec.army.mil!svl.tec.army.mil!anneb From: anneb@svl.tec.army.mil (Anne Brink) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: install problems: NFS, NE2000 clone, 10-based T Date: 25 Nov 1996 14:04:25 GMT Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Alexandria, VA Lines: 41 Message-ID: <57c919$jc2@tecsun3.tec.army.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: svl.tec.army.mil X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm having trouble using an NE2000 clone network card and installing 2.1.5 over NFS. I've followed the suggestions in the FAQ, still no luck, so I was hoping someone out there had some experience or other suggestions to offer. The board in question is an "Alta Research Corp. Winstar 16." I've configured the board so that it is /NOT/ plug-and-play, the IRQ (5) is not colliding with anything, it's at address 0x300, which only collides in the kernel with tape and CD-rom devices, neither of which I have installed on the machine. I've hardwired the board to use the 10-based T connect, and I've tried setting it in the autodetect mode, then ifconfig with and without link2; still no results. The 'no results' are: Unable to do a DNS lookup for the NFS-mount machine, IOW, can't reach the name server. If I tell it to NFS mount from an IP number instead of name, it goes to mount the disk, and comes back with NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure- RPC: Unable to send The mounting machine is an SGI running IRIX 5.3, and I've succesfully done an NFS install of 2.0.5, mounting from this exact machine in the past. Granted, this is better than ed1: device timeout, which is what I was getting before I configured the board. But it still isn't working. /-: The LED on the board is lighting up, indicating that it does in fact detect a network out there, according to the docs. However, the docs assume twice as many LED's on the outside of the board as actually exist, so I'm not precisely sure what that means. Also /-: Thanks for any help people can offer. -A. -- "The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password." -E. Zwicky. -----Self-proclaimed programmer with screwdriver, beware-----------------------