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From: Ken <welk@mem.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Network not running problem
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:20:51 -0600
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All,

I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and seem to have a networking problem. The box
has an ethernet card in it (which worked fine with Netware prior to
conversion of the system to FreeBSD). 

As the system boots, a message appears appears to the effect "Device
lnc0 initialisation failure." Immediately thereafter, the device line
appears showing lnc0 is up and appropriately showing the assigned IP,
netmask, and broadcast addresses.

As an initial test of the network, attempt to ping another machine on
the ethernet network results in FreeBSD reporting that the network is
not running. I see no sign that the network adaper is attempting to
transmit, either.

When trying the reverse, attempting to ping the FreeBSD machine from a
client, I get a timeout message. Also, during this process the ethernet
card in the FreeBSD machine is obviously being hit with packets, since
it's lcd flashes.

Both pinging the loopback device and the ethernet device (lnc0) from the
FreeBSD machine itself works fine.

Am I overlooking something? What is the best guess as to the problem?

Thanks.

Ken