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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network not running problem Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:41:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5e8604$r3v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32FF2D55.2CDD@mem.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35617 Ken <welk@mem.net> wrote: > 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). Well, there's the problem: your network adapter is now contaminated with leftover stray bits of Netware stuff. Remove them. :-)) No, seriously... > 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. Hmm. lnc0. You forgot to tell us what network card you're using at all. It doesn't look like the standard-all-around-the-world NE2000 in this case. Also, the usual paranoia: are you sure the setup of your card matches the idea of the kernel? Since it seems to have found an lnc0 board, i guess the port address matches. But what about the IRQ and DRQ settings? Enter ``-c'' at the boot prompt to adjust the kernel's idea of the hardware parameters. -- 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. ;-)