From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 15:54:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA29714 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.stack.nl (terra.stack.nl [131.155.140.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29695 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xaa.stack.nl (uucp@localhost) by terra.stack.nl (8.8.7) with UUCP id AAA28292; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by xaa.stack.nl (8.8.7/8.8.2) id AAA03727; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:53:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970912005340.59098@xaa.stack.nl> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:53:40 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED! (was: How do I fix the ethernet card I/O address (?)) References: <25758.874010970@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: <25758.874010970@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 01:49:30PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > So that's what I did. Bozo that I am, it didn't occur to me until > _after_ I sent out my earlier query that maybe the simple solution to > my problem was just to change the card address to match the OS address, > rather than vise versa (DUH!) Of course this entailed having to rummage > around and try to find the *&^%# configuration disk for the ethernet > card, and then (also) booting up DOS (yecch) from floppy again, and then > diddling the card addess in the DOS-based card configuration setup program, > and then praying... but it did work. Be happy that it boots from a DOS flop. My machine (cvsup.nl.freebsd.org) is so welltrained that it won't even consider booting from a dosfloppy, unless I disconnect one of its hard disks, very weird, but can you blame a machine for that stubborness? Mark