From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 4 20:41:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19129 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA28867; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:40:21 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA02155; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:40:20 -0600 (CST) To: Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet problems with NE2000 References: <3.0.5.32.19980404181253.0092d100@mail.zwb.net> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 04 Apr 1998 23:40:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: Dima Dorfman's message of "Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:12:53 -0800" Message-ID: <87vhsoev9o.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman writes: > I can't get my NE2000 ISA card to work with my FreeBSD 2.2.6 box. It > dedects it ok. Then, I ru ifconfig, and configure the card by: > > ifconfig ed0 inet 192.168.77.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > I know I'm using the right numbers, and I can ping 192.168.77.253(my > address), but I can't ping 192.168.77.254 (IP of my laptop). I get a > "ping: sendto: permission denied". I'm logged in as root, so I translate > that as "hardware won't let you do that." That permission denied error message sounds like you have some firewalling misconfiguration.... besides that, I'd look at routing (try netstat -r). I don't think it's a hardware problem. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message