From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 10:30:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22697 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:30:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from millennium.net (mrvid.demon.co.uk [194.222.140.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22666 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by millennium.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA07445; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:52:23 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:52:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists X-Sender: lists@millennium.net To: Matthew Soffen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP getting FTP Install to work. In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980129014527.00b5ecb0@soffen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" > I get the machine (a Digital Venturis P60 with 32MB Ram, 4x CDROM > and a 3COM Network card) to boot using the FreeBSD Boot Floppy. I > can get through the configuration stuff however, as soon as the > install gets to adding the "default route" it just hangs and > eventually times out. It appears to have found the network card > alright (no error messages on V2). > > I have an NT 4.0 server running as my router which is currently > allowing a Win95 box to go through the connection fine so I don't > think that is the problem. > > For some reason it just doesn't appear to be seeing the network (Base2). Is your 3com a combo card (i.e does it have UTP, BNC & AUI on the back of it?) If so, most of the time BSD will default to the UTP port and you have to use a DOS utility provided by 3com (http://www.3com.com/) to set the port manually to default to BNC. L8rz KrOnUs | http://www.splash.nu/ | PGP Key Available